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...students at Lomada School. He coordinates the work of two Silbo teachers to cover the island's 14 other schools. Students aged 7 to 14 do half an hour of whistling a week; those under 7 do 15 minutes to acquaint them with the technique. The Silbo employs ch, y, g and k sounds, plus the vowels a and i. "The sounds are approximate to spoken Spanish," says Darias. "Some words, such as catarro [a cold] and cacharro [a cooking utensil], sound much the same, as do nada [nothing] and lana [wool]. Context tells you which." To test whether this...
Marlon: We're the only Wayans with the last name Wayans. I think my grandma didn't like the spelling W-a-y-n-e-s and said, "I'm gonna change it up." Keenen: Anybody with our last name is related...
...June 19, 10 p.m. E.T.), director John Landis (The Blues Brothers) spends a week with Bennett as he organizes and executes one such blowout. En route to the airport, Bennett struggles to remember where he's going--Memphis, Tenn.--while an assistant preps him on the local vernacular. ("Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding...
...while the Crimson might not have had the firepower to upstage the No. 1 Midshipmen, Harvard was also bested by both Princeton and Yale, each of whom, like the Hoyas, the Crimson had already beaten to successfully defend the Goldthwait Cup at H-Y-P in the season’s final dual...
...much-anticipated H-Y-P tri-meet on Jan. 30 might well have been called the H-P, because the Elis were a non-factor throughout and were soundly defeated 245-106 by the Crimson and 272-79 by the Tigers...