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...just isn't any evidence for this," he insists. "There were probably a number of different populations, forming groups that rose and fell over time and shifted alliances. I don't think there was any political integration." No one knows whether the major cities--San Lorenzo, La Venta and Tres Zapotes--traded with one another, or even co-existed...
...Room A-2, a bilingual class, 30 first-graders, all Latinos, belt out their favorite song, El Rancho Grande. In the book corner: Los Tres Cochinitos--The Three Little Pigs. On the wall: the seasons, the months, the days, in both Spanish and English. In a mock interview, teacher Marina Williams asks Fabiola, a gap-toothed charmer, "Senora Presidente, what should children do in school?" Fabiola shoots back, "Aprender ingles!"--learn English. But one small boy has another idea: "Bailar!"--dance. The teacher takes the hint, winding up the day with a session of "la quebradita," a sort of Mexican...
While one of Boccherini's guitar quintets features castanets, Turina calls for percussive sounds created by tapping the face of the instrument. Fisk later extended the guitar's percussive role in his transcription of de Falla's Danza del Molinero from "El Sombrero de Tres Picos"; by adding a strummed tone to his tapping, Fisk achieved a startlingly bell-like effect. He also created ringing harmonics by manipulating the resonant lengths of the strings...
...Tres Marias, Clara gives birth to a daughter, Blanca, who is Raised with all luxury befitting a legitimate child in the now powerfully conservative Trueba family. Esteban has also fathered an illegitimate child, the son of the peasant worker (Sarita Choudhury) he raped on his estate. This illegitimate son is destined to grow up and terrorize the Trueba family...
Ferula, who has moved to Tres Marias at Clara's insistence, hovers over her distracted sister-in-law, attending to practicalities when Clara and Ferula wrapped up in her psychic powers. Clara and Ferula become the best of friends while Esteban, suspicious of a romantic relationship between the two to them, grows insanely jealous of this competition for his wife's attention...