Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maimonis, a former Spanish teacher, opened the party with a round of introductions, reminiscent of the first day of a new class. This, she says, is a customary Tupperware activity...
...movie has a great avalanche. After that, it's all downhill. The acting (Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano are the stars) starts at a pitch of whiny hysteria and rarely lets up. The dialogue, by ace playwright John Patrick Shanley, sounds as if poorly translated from the Spanish: "What have we done that God now asks us to eat the bodies of our own dead friends?" Dissing aside, that makes for a poignant ethical dilemma and a telling religious metaphor. But Alive strands its theme of haunted heroism -- what's inside a man that compels him to survive...
...have moved into the future themselves. At a restaurant in Mexico City, a young professional woman advises him to stop moping over the Madonnas and lost villages of his parents' generation. Undaunted, he treks to Tijuana, watches illegal immigrants make the nighttime dash across the border, tours the old Spanish missions in California. At home in San Francisco he watches AIDS carve his friends to the bone. The epidemic brings northward a Latin preoccupation with death, but Rodriguez suspects that the greater cultural thrust is on the side of the U.S., "the more powerful broadcaster...
...biggest thing for myself is simply I miss the food I eat at home, the music, speaking Spanish--mostly the social type of interaction," says Letitia J. Arias '94, who is co-chair of Latinas Unidas, a social, cultural and educational group for women of Latino descent...
...home community was "a good 98 percent" Latino, she says. "Back home you interchange English and Spanish without thinking about it...it was some sort of culture shock" to come to Harvard...