Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play a nonstop kickball game over what may be two days and at distances of up to 100 miles. But when they cross the finish line, they more or less ignore the winner, acting as if nothing unusual had happened. Shoumatoff writes that the Tarahumara never accepted the Spanish culture and religion, but that lately their culture has been brutalized by narco-traficantes, drug dealers who terrorized them into growing marijuana and opium poppies. He comments wryly that pot and heroin are "the new treasure of the Sierra Madre...
Shoumatoff gives less space to Anglo culture, but he does introduce the reader to Stanley Marsh, the whimsical gent who buried 10 baby blue Cadillacs on end near Amarillo, Texas, and to New Age purveyors of what he accurately calls hooey in Sedona, Ariz. For the refried Spanish architecture mandatory in the tonier quarter of Santa Fe, N.M., he borrows a glorious slur from an exasperated architect that the regional hothead Edward Abbey could have said more noisily but not better: Taco Deco...
...genuine Mametiana: a two-character piece with threats crowding in from the elements (vast space, cold weather, an angry bear) and from a man's bitter, murky soul. It doesn't have much of the Mamet dialogue tang; that is on dazzling display in his forthcoming thriller, The Spanish Prisoner. Still, The Edge, directed by Lee Tamahori, offers enough of what a melodrama demands: two strong characters in mutual creative distrust...
Ajidewe Son, a musical group that combines African rhythms, Western harmonies and Spanish lyrics, was one of the bands that provided entertainment...
JESSE HELMS Senator No won't say si to former Governor Weld. So, Bill, how do you say hardball in Spanish...