Word: trinidadians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abortive coup, emerged from the television-broadcast building in Port-of- Spain and laid down his rifle. "Allah is the greatest," he said, then stood in the pouring rain as 70 of his followers added their arms to the growing pile of weapons and were taken into custody by Trinidadian soldiers. The rebels are expected to face criminal charges of treason, murder and kidnapping, and could be hanged if found guilty...
...their independence, Kate and Claire must cope with a parade of day-care workers. It begins with Mercedes Robbins, who arrives in designer jeans and high heels, and extends through fire-breathing fundamentalists, people who show up late or fall asleep after they arrive until finally a friendly, energetic Trinidadian nurse takes over and be comes the book's unlikely heroine. For a story of two isolated women, Sheehan's canvas is crowded with lively figures, including Claire's callous sister and a diabolical city administrator. The author's prose is as prosy and readable...
...showmanship, and commercials for American Express behind him, Edson Arantes do Nascimento is chasing another goal: film acting. Pelé's role in Escape to Victory, now being shot by Director John Huston in Budapest, is classic typecasting. The former U.S. and Brazilian soccer star plays a former Trinidadian soccer star imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp along with Michael Caine, who, as luck would have it, played on the British national team, Sylvester Stallone, a brash American captain with promise as a goalie, and other prisoners of unquestionable talent-the cast includes 18 pro players...
...Naipaul later used in his novels. Zaire's Mobutu, with his brew of futurism and ancestor worship, is clearly the model for the remote leader of the Central African nation described in A Bend in the River (1979). The confused longings and demagogy of Michael de Freitas, a Trinidadian cult leader who was hanged for murder in 1975, are reflected in Guerrillas (1975). There are touches of pathos in the studiously detached account of De Freitas' career as a contemporary Emperor Jones. The problems of fitting the ritual masks of modernism over Africa's colonial scars...
...Trinidadian writes are brothers, which partly explains why their recent books on Africa both argue that the heart of darkness has relocated to a new bend in the river, just north of South Africa. They have not left Conrad far behind in their assertion that Africa is a dark and irrational continent...