Word: worded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Olmos' next role was as star of a PBS special, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, a true story about a Mexican cowhand who became the object of one of the biggest manhunts in Texas history, all because of an incorrectly translated word. He threw himself into the part with characteristic fervor, studying old newspaper clippings and photographs for clues to Cortez's inner state. The most audacious touch, perhaps, was the decision to have Cortez speak Spanish throughout the movie -- no subtitles. "I wanted to put non- Spanish speaking viewers in the same predicament as the law-abiding citizens...
...word is sensibilidad. It refers to a quality of temperament easier to recognize than define, a spacious basket of subtleties: strength without roughness, pride tempered with humor, a hint of festival, a tinge of tragedy. Like the monolithic term Hispanic, it tends to blur the individual colors of each distinct Latin culture, and yet artists, designers, actors and authors from all corners of Latin culture resort to the word when others fail to capture just what is most infectious about a Latin sense of style...
With surprising harmony, the Democrats all but completed drafting their platform last week. The relatively brief, 3,500-word document (the elephantine 1984 version was 40,000 words) signals a sharp break with the party's promise- them-anything past. This time there are no bold pledges to match earlier advocacy of guaranteed jobs (1972) and national health insurance (1980). Gone too is the usual laundry list of narrow causes like the 1984 vow to "eliminate ethnic stereotyping." The 1988 platform may be purposely vague, but there are hidden subtexts beneath the soporific rhetoric...
Read invest as the new Democratic code word for spend; rarely have so many potentially budget-busting programs been separated by so little punctuation. Dukakis is the apostle of "targeted economic development," while Jackson has . stressed creating public service jobs to rebuild America's "infrastructure." The platform neglects to explain how "fiscal responsibility" might be achieved. But Jackson is likely to wage a convention floor fight on this point to insert a pledge to raise the taxes of the wealthy. Dukakis' likely response: "Go ahead, make...
Some things never change, such as the Democrats' compulsion to list in encylopedic detail all the forms of bias they abhor. A safe bet: the social- science buzz word multicultural will not appear in the G.O.P. platform...