Word: corazon
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They handled the problem by doing some musical soul searching, first into the past for La Pistola y El Corazon, a 1988 album of Mexican folk music that won a Grammy, then, for The Neighborhood, into the world outside their door. Or, more accurately, outside their doughnut shop, a Winchell's just south of Los Angeles in Whittier, where Perez and Hidalgo meet to talk business, do interviews and check out the street action. Their old neighborhood in East Los Angeles is impassable. "We had a strong sense of community," says Perez. "But with all the drugs and gangs...
...images still stir the spirit: multitudes, swathed in yellow, sweeping Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines; Benazir Bhutto campaigning atop truck caravans in Pakistan; Violeta Chamorro, in a wheelchair, toppling Nicaragua's haughty Sandinista regime. In the past decade, no man has come to power as dramatically and as spectacularly as these women. For feminists everywhere, the rise of Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro seemed to augur huge steps forward for societies usually characterized by unrelenting machismo. The images, however, were misleading...
...scenario, long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...
Metropolitan Manila, though largely undamaged, was severely shaken. In Malacanang Palace, where President Corazon Aquino was presiding over a meeting with Cabinet ministers and Senators, participants scrambled for cover under the conference table. Quipped Aquino: "What the coup failed to do, the earthquake did" -- a reference to the stoutly denied report that during a failed 1987 insurrection she was cowering under...
...phone at the presidential house on Arlegui Street began ringing at 5 a.m. despite a long-standing order that the resident not be awakened except in the event of another coup attempt. For Corazon Aquino, the news that Imelda Marcos had just been acquitted of fraud and racketeering charges in a New York court must have been nearly as distressing. The President's office reacted by tersely reaffirming Aquino's decision "not to allow the return of Mrs. Marcos at the present time." But across the Pacific, a vindicated Marcos told reporters, "I think I should be able to come...