Word: grauman
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...symbol of authority-purple jackets donated by the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater-and proclaimed themselves a part of the security force called the Warhawks, after the school's nickname. Some of the Warhawks then used their weapons to rob and terrorize other refugees. According to Thomas Grauman, a former social worker at the camp, "the toughest, meanest men" joined the force, which later changed its name to the Águilas (Spanish for eagles) but not its terrorist tactics. Says Fernando Machinena, who once served as interpreter for the Cubans' governing council: "The camp officials have...
...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...