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...This Spanish-language album is a mixed bag of sugary pop and hip-shaking Latin rock. Fijación Oral is vastly better than Shakira's English efforts, which have never had the confidence of her singing in her native tongue. The intricately crafted lyrics in songs like Escondite Inglés allow her to work out that wonderfully warbled voice. And Shakira's reputation for writhing is safe with La Tortura, her rocked-out-yet-folky duet with Spanish crooner Alejandro Sanz. You'll have no choice but to get up and dance...
...amalgam never descends into coffeehouse cliché. For most of the songs, the Mexican chanteuse accompanies her velvety voice on acoustic guitar and now and then some rocking accordion. (Yes, accordions can rock.) She even experiments with reggaeton on Primer Día but makes it her own by adding Spanish guitar. The title track recalls a Yellow Submarine--era Beatles--as digested by Mexico. But it's the effortless singing and light tropical beat on Sin Documentos that catch Venegas at her swayworthy best...
...Instead, Spanish-speaking Macbeths encouraged hatred toward their neighbors, and thus gained control of small local territories. Almost without exception, betrayal and dictatorship followed absolute control: The liberators of the day were the dictators of the next...
...Olofson. The debut of HBR South Asia is slated for Oct. 16, with a kick-off event in Mumbai featuring several CEOs of top Indian companies. The South Asia edition joins HBR versions printed in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain, and Taiwan—as well as Spanish- and Portuguese-language Latin American publications based in Chile. Although less than 5 percent of the Indian population—which totals nearly 1.1 billion—speaks English fluently, HBS South Asia will be published in English, making it the first international edition in the same language...
...early attempts at communication were dazzlingly incompetent, mainly due to my inability to understand elderly-person Spanish. At one of our first family dinners together, she adjusted her shawl, turned, smiled blithely at me, and said...