Word: vegas
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...intricate melody; and “Surf’s Up,” the album’s transcendent centerpiece, called by Leonard Bernstein “an important contribution to 20th-century American music.” They also wrote songs with titles like “Vega-Tables” and “Do You Like Worms” and “I Love to Say Dada.” Journalists visited Wilson at work in the studio and left singing the praises of this young—yes, they began to say it?...
Marston doesn't make that easy for her in this unpretentious and straightforward film. She's almost caught by customs officers in New York City. Her friend Lucy (Guilied Lopez) sickens and dies when heroin poisons her. Another friend, Blanca (Yenny Paola Vega), turns out to be at once rebellious and dependent when she and Maria are stranded, broke and friendless, on the New York streets. Yet somehow Maria prevails...
...sense, the Vegas trend is an old story--mindless escapism in the mold of Aaron Spelling's Fantasy Island and, yes, the Robert Urich Vega$ (though, for his part, Spelling says some of the new, decency-cautious series "make Vegas seem like a church"). But the new programs also show how some of our mores have changed. Consider the casino-based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke...
...first Spy Kids we met the superspies (Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino), who married, retired, had two kids, then went back to work, this time letting Carmen (Alexa Vega) and little bro Juni (Daryl Sabara) help Dad and Mom save the world. At the end, Carmen intoned the film's family-values homily: "Spywork, that's easy. Keeping a family together, that's difficult. And that's a mission worth fighting...
...It’s a vibrant site where screenings, conferences and discussions about the relationship between arts and politics, economy [and] education...take place,” Vega-Merino said in an e-mail...