Word: tagalog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apec economic summits. But the clothes! Last week Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien chose for his guests a brown elk leather, $400 Roots flight jacket, each personalized with the summiteer's name, title and apec logo, and cut to size (Clinton's: XXXL, tall). Such outfits--a Philippine barong tagalog in 1996 and an Indonesian batik shirt in 1994--are now high on the agenda. Host countries "check out the President's size pretty carefully," says the White House...
...completely insensitive of you to say President Clinton looked "goofy" wearing various outfits on his visit to the Pacific Rim [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 9]. You showed him wearing the barong tagalog, which is the traditional formal wear of Filipinos. As a Filipino American, I am proud whenever I wear my barong, and I certainly don't think I look goofy. FRANK LOPEZ Atlanta...
...election over, President Clinton is once again free to look goofy--at least when visiting the Pacific Rim. From left: going native in Australia; wearing a Philippine barong tagalog, a gift from President Fidel Ramos; sporting Thai academic garb during a ceremony at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University; and back in traditional American costume on an Australian beach...
...delivering Filipino food, Rocky leaves home with Elvis to pursue a music career in Los Angeles and, later, New York City. Toward the end of the book her mother becomes senile and begins to forget her English; Rocky, for her part, is no longer able to remember her Tagalog as she grows into middle...
...forgotten so much of the language, and it exasperates me," Rocky says. "Big holes when I try to speak. Like, how do you say sugar? I remember aswang for vampire, asin for salt. But not sugar. I've dreamed entire dreams in Tagalog, but I don't know what I'm saying...