Word: spanishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Auguste, a New Yorker whose mother isChinese and Venezuelan and father is Black,French, English, Spanish and Scottish, says heisn't surprised...
...million riflery program, the government continues to aid its domestic adversaries by providing extremist groups with cheap weapons, free bullets and Army training facilities. Despite some futile battles in Congress to eliminate the program, it has existed unchecked since its establishment in 1903, when American marksmanship in the Spanish-American War was deemed terribly below standard. The program itself was designed for a blameless purpose then--but that was 92 years ago. Today, such a program is ludicrous, especially since the end of a Cold War that never led to open conflict. What, then, will be the point of teaching...
...popcorn at a movie theater. I must relate the story of the time Gina Maria Sandoval, she of the big hair, the Kabuki harlot make-up and the lavender Lee Press-On nails, was in charge of making the popcorn. We heard a muffled cry of horror and a Spanish expletive emerge from the lovely Gina, who she told us that she had lost one of her nails in the popcorn. About two hours later, a pleasantly bourgeois woman emerged from a screening of the Tom Cruise extravaganza "Far and Away" and lodged a complaint with the manager. That...
...sponsor their entry into the United States. Since preference is given to families, Dorita and Juan pretend to be married, and pick up a grandfather and a young man whose last name is also Perez. (The film's running joke is that Perez is the most common surname in Spanish, like Smith in English, and that this felicitous commonality is what gives the characters their freedom.) In Miami, meanwhile, Juan's wife Carmela (Anjelica Huston) believes that Juan is never going to arrive and, despite the objections of her brother Angel (Diego Walraff), finds herself attracted to a policeman named...
...serve the Spanish community, the Haitians and the Portuguese," he said. "We carry ethnic goods from the Carribean...