Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because of the potential for abuse and, more to the point, the traditionally seedy associations that cling to impotence remedies (witness the ads in the back of low-rent men's magazines for spurious Spanish fly, hard-on creams and the like) that drug companies have only recently turned their attention to sexual dysfunction. This would account for the tone adopted by Pfizer chairman and CEO William Steere even as he figuratively licks his chops over the potential market in "aging baby boomers." He is careful to point out that "quality-of-life drugs are gene-based just like those...
...whines or twinkles; Hannah works overtime at being winsome; Lynch has not even a pinch of larcenous charm; Tripplehorn is reduced to stridency and humiliation. The actors appear to be on trial for unknown offenses, and what could be blithe and affecting instead comes on like--oh, like the Spanish Inquisition...
...really difficult to talk about common ground except that our ancestors spoke Spanish and that a lot of Latino groups are in poverty today," said second year KSG student Sylvia H. Kauffman, a conference participant...
Among the sea of Dominican flags at Fenway Park Friday night, a few of the more traditional Red Sox fans in attendance were getting their first lesson in Spanish. Pedro Martinez, Boston's new ace, was on the mound against the Cleveland Indians, and a large contingent of the city's Dominican population had arrived to lend him their vociferous support. Long before the first pitch, as Martinez warmed up in the bullpen, the chanting and cheering began, and it didn't stop until Pedro's final pitch retired David Justice to end the ninth...
...admissions committee of the University of California, Berkeley evaluated a Latino applicant whose grades and college-board scores were good but not stellar. Following Berkeley's newly redesigned admissions policy, however, the committee looked well beyond the raw numbers. The members learned that although his parents spoke only Spanish, the applicant had single-handedly found his way to a magnet school devoted to science an hour from his home. They took note of the fact that as his English improved, so had his grades. And translating for his parents, as the boy frequently did, had given him an interest...