Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sesame Street is not solely to blame for the lack of attention in the country. Of course, those children who watch Sesame Street and learn the Spanish word for water are much better equipped to deal with the rest of the world and will have better life styles and more children etc., etc. But if the short attention span wasn't already important to American society, then children who developed it from Sesame Street would be no better off than other children...
...then go downstairs, and like some Spanish conquistador, I lay claim to one of the Power Macintoshes...
...Macarena, cited by Gore and mimed by Hillary Rodham Clinton and thousands of delegates, held a hidden message. The song (which is performed in the kind of lockstep the party wanted from its delegates) is an ode to seduction. "Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena," goes the chorus in Spanish. Translation: "Give your body joy, Macarena...
...most audiences, Hispanic opera means Carmen (written, of course, by a Frenchman). Placido Domingo, in his new role as artistic director of the Washington Opera, means to broaden the definition. This season the company will present Manuel Penella's 1916 Spanish opera El Gato Montes as well as Antonio Carlos Gomes' 1870 Il Guarany, written, alas, in Italian but set in the Amazon. Meanwhile, the Houston Grand Opera offers the world premiere of Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas, based on stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...started a small trucking company and raised his four sons in the middle-class Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Kemp's persistence comes from his old man, who gradually expanded his business from one truck to 14, but his empathy comes from his mother, a onetime social worker and Spanish teacher...