Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel called Cien Aos de Soledad was published in Buenos Aires and began winning international acclaim for a Colombian journalist named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yet nearly three years elapsed before One Hundred Years of Solitude made its way into English. The reason for the delay? Argentine Author Julio Cortazar, whose novel Rayuela had become a critical success in the U.S. as Hopscotch, offered Garcia Marquez a piece of advice based on his own happy experience: Get your book translated by Professor Gregory Rabassa of New York City. As it happened, Garcia Marquez had to wait a while; Rabassa was busy...
Milcha Sanchez-Scott, 33, was born in Bali of an Indonesian mother and a Colombian-Mexican father, and lived as a child in Mexico, South America and Britain before her family settled near San Diego when she was 14. Although her father was a middle-class gardener, she identified with those who had not yet fit into the economic system. She became a sometime actress who also worked as a maid and at a temp agency...
...trade you two Colombian goalie cards and an official World Cup backscratcher for one Saudi...
When a freeze wilted half the flowers prepared for this year's Tournament of Roses Parade, two jets from Avianca, the Colombian airline, flew to Los Angeles with enough carnations to keep the beauty queens in the pink. But similar rescues will not be possible for a while, at least not from Avianca. Last week the airline suspended cargo flights to the U.S. The move followed the seizure of 422 lbs. of cocaine on a flight from Bogota to Miami. The U.S. Customs Service fined the airline $6.8 million. Since 1986, 5,000 lbs. of cocaine have been found...
Forget about Mick Dundee for a bit, and focus on Rico the drug lord. Why is he portrayed as a Colombian, instead of just another bad guy? Why does he have to speak with an accent that makes Ricardo Montalban sound like Lord Byron...