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Wise Latinas may have gotten little air time in U.S. pop culture, but the archetype is an old one among Hispanics: the wizened old woman who serves as a storehouse of folk wisdom - and is occasionally blessed with healing powers. It is the character of solid-like-a-rock Big Mama in Gabriel García Márquez's short story Big Mama's Funerals. It is otherworldly Ultima in Rudolfo Anaya's Chicano lit classic Bless Me, Ultima. And on the telenovelas, it is the kindly older lady who knows who the father of the orphaned deaf-mute...
...auditioned to be a guest host on Ebert and Roeper, and although I failed miserably, I sent him an e-mail saying I wrote this book, and you're featured prominently. And Ebert, God bless him, wrote a blurb for the book. I think his blurb is actually longer than the book itself...
...relaxed program was built largely around music and talking points interspersed with a series of videos downloaded from YouTube. The audience sang a verse each of "America, the Beautiful," "My Country 'tis of Thee," and "God Bless America," then watched a video bit from the late comedian Red Skelton in which he invokes one of his former teachers who broke down the Pledge of Allegiance word by word. Pagano then asked the crowd to stand and led them in reciting the Pledge...
Finally, came a raffle (the prizes: free NRA membership, gun range time and a pistol), a Lee Greenwood video of "God Bless the USA," and an invitation to hang out for hot dogs, chips and bottled water, a blessing on this humid 91-degree...
...trying to slip Saint Peter a few coins. Moreover, it would help both church and state if a court didn’t settle every dispute. Otherwise, we may see the day when the penitent Catholic, at the start of Confession, instead of saying “Bless me Father, for I have sinned,” demands, “Bless me Father...