Word: alhambra
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...skirts. And the male chorus sports smart 1980s army jackets and leather sneakers, and paddles in and out riding blue skateboards. When the gondoliers leave Venice to become kings of Barataria, they puff themselves up a bit with hats and golf-clubs. Most amusing of all, when Don Alhambra, the normally buffoonish grand inquisitor, finds himself in moments of stress, he takes a snort from a small black snuff box he carries; the box occasionally tips over when someone bumps into the Don, and the powder that spills out is unmistakeably white...
...dwarf, and one has been classified as a homosexual. Many of the stragglers are brought in by neighborhood youngsters who have heard about the Milsters' cat colony. The cats' names are chosen eclectically: Nanki-Po, Twiggy, Dick Deadeye, Pigpen, Anastasia, Violetta, Wilfred Shadbolt, Don Alhambra del Bolero and Mad Ludwig...
...rich. The Persian Gulf sheikdom of 1.4 million people has aggressively bought everything from a West German steel mill to a South Carolina resort community. Last week Kuwait struck its biggest, and potentially most controversial, deal yet: a $2.5 billion takeover of the Santa Fe International Corp., of Alhambra, Calif., a leading oil-drilling contractor (1980 revenues: $1.2 billion...
...which he had not, but had studied in books. Most of all, he fell in love in with the walled, closed-in Arab garden, animated and cooled by the splash of a fountain or stilled by a pool, whose apotheosis he found in the marvelous intricacies of Spain's Alhambra...
...blacks' "Uncle Toms." Today businessmen like Gilbert Vasquez, 39, head of the largest Hispanic certified public accounting firm in the U.S. (five offices, 65 employees), feel that individual successes will be "stepping-stones" to lasting change. Vasquez, who has moved out of the barrio to suburban Alhambra, remains involved in ghetto issues and tries to get other Hispanic professionals to take part in politics. At one chicano fund-raising cocktail party, guests anted up $20,000 for Jerry Brown's re-election campaign...