Word: camino
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...table in Mexico City's Camino Real Hotel, a foreign businessman and a middle-ranking government official are talking quietly in a corner. Midway through the conversation, the foreigner casually places an envelope on a chair next to him. When the foreigner rises to leave, the envelope remains behind. The government official slips it into his coat pocket a few minutes later and departs...
Among Williams' works, this play most nearly resembles Camino Real. But it is more pensive and muted, a violin to Camino Real's trumpet. Like Camino Real, Mr. Merriwether laces together reality and fantasy, the romantic spirit and the appearance of actual culture heroes of the past, such as Van Gogh and Rimbaud, here presented as "apparitions." In episodic fashion, Mr. Merriwether embraces the four major concerns that have spurred Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival...
...Some applicants had already attended the school that Hazan conducts each year from May to November in Bologna, Italy's gastronomical heartland. Most are Belle Pomme regulars, eager to branch out into the mysteries of pasta, prosciutto, parmigiana, pesce and polio, not to mention savoring Marcella's gelato spazza camino (Scotch-laced vanilla ice cream chimneysweep style, so called because it is topped with finely ground espresso coffee "soot...
Despite the need for, and advantages of, solar energy, there has not yet arisen a strong base of grassroots support for solar development. One reason is common ignorance of the continuing energy crisis and of the inability of nuclear power to safely meet national, or international, energy needs. El Camino owners still fly down the pikes doing CB 70 flashing a chrome-framed message from their jacked-up bumpers: I hope all of you ecological bastards freeze to death in the dark. A second reason is the lack of effective leadership--field representatives from national Sun Day headquarters...
...seen on stage has to convince the audience that it's the real thing. But the only reality is the actor on the stage and you're watching. Our company is beautiful, eccentric, talented, and the fun is using and stretching the limitations." A recent production of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, for example, was done in drag, with all female parts, save for one, played by men. Why? "All the women were involved in another production...