Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SELLER Paula Abdul BUYER Tom Arnold DESCRIPTION Beaut peach 6,800-sq.-ft. Spanish-style villa in excl 90210 ZIP. Gated comm, 5 brs, pond w exotic Japanese fish, fntn, winding pool leads to sunny kit. Many convs. Stunning vus PRICE $2.4 million (although it was valued at $3.2 million...
Generous almost to a fault, this movie offers us not one but two Zorros. There's an aging one, Don Diego (played with impeccable elegance by Anthony Hopkins), making a comeback after suffering a long imprisonment, to fight a resurgence of tyranny in old, Spanish-controlled California. In the process he recruits a young, nimbler apprentice, Alejandro (portrayed by Antonio Banderas), who's not afraid of acting a little dumb until his mentor smartens him up, cools his ardent blood and teaches him the skills that make him worthy of wearing the black mask of the gallant outlaw...
...they could recruit Mexican teachers, they reasoned, they could make Dalton more attractive for families to come across the border. The new teachers could help the Mexican kids learn English and the American kids learn Spanish...
...like advising trainees with a shaky knowledge of geography to try looking for "Guatemala" in the computer's country listing if they can't find it under cities. She cautions against playing tricks on customers, like getting rid of an angry English-speaking caller by transferring him to a Spanish-speaking operator, because that worker will be caught...
...wasn't always this way. At the first festival, in 1925, known then as the "Blessing of the Blossoms," the focal point was a prayer service conducted by two local ministers in praise of cherries, though there was also a parade featuring Spanish-American War veterans. And even this inaugural celebration had underwriters: the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs covered the day's expenses. While few pine for such simplicity today, some festival participants found it a particular outrage that the quintessential cherry product, pie, had been essentially hijacked by the deep-pocketed, frozen-food mass marketer Sara Lee. When...