Word: tagalog
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...musical experimentation never gets in the way of danceability on this album. But at the same time neither is it content to leave the beats unadorned and uninteresting. Instead, we get the middle ground: lots and lots of bongos, Latin influences on many of the songs, a song in Tagalog (“Bebot”), a Middle-Eastern sound on occasion, the fantastic marriage of “Miserlou” and handclaps, and even a piano outro on “My Humps” that gets points for unexpectedness...
...stump in Cebu City, an opposition stronghold 375 miles south of Manila, however, the President and his wife appeared vigorous and eager for their fourth election in 20 years. Wearing a bulletproof vest under his traditional white barong tagalog after reports of an assassination plot, the President held forth for 90 minutes before 3,000 cheering supporters at the Cebu Coliseum. Marcos promised them that he would not take the election lightly: "I always run scared." Last week political observers were asking whether voters in the Philippines will once more offer Marcos their support on voting day. Many were also...
...DIED. FERNANDO POE JR., 65, "Da King" of Philippine action movies, who tried to use his popularity at the box office to win the presidency last May; of a massive stroke; in Quezon City. The handsome, half-American, half-Filipino Poe rose from poverty to become the archetypal Tagalog movie lead and a millionaire. He portrayed honest cops or soldiers brought low by corrupt forces, who always bounced back to take bloody revenge. In some parts of the country, overheated audience members were known to fire weapons at the screen when Poe's character was attacked. Poe lost...
...BLAS OPLE was the guy Ferdinand Marcos dispatched to Washington just before he ordered tanks to try to quell Manila's People Power revolution. In a starched barong tagalog and with an extraordinary baritone, Blas vainly lobbied Capitol Hill that Marcos wasn't all that bad. One day, he admitted to the press what he shouldn't have: that the Philippines under Marcos was in an "interregnum." Blas, a big talker and determined erudite, loved that word...
INFO HUB The official website of the Department of Tourism both promises and delivers. Offering useful travel tips and an exhaustive list of places to go, it also has a fun trivia section perfect for predeparture dinner conversations. Example: the yo-yo, which means "come back" in Tagalog, is Philippine in origin...