Word: hectored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I heard that Hector Feliciano was reading from his book, Le Musee Disparu, at the Village Voice bookstore in Paris this summer, I didn't know who he was. I did know that I had just arrived in the city and didn't know too many people, and that art looted by the Nazis during World War II was an interesting enough topic to get me on the metro...
...with the Harvard Foundation. Maria Herrera-Sobek, a visiting professor last year through the folklore and mythology Department, is not only a distinguished scholar in the field of Chicana writers but is also the head of the Department for Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Hector Calderon, of the University of California at Los Angeles, also an eminent scholar specializing in Chicano narrative, it teaching two courses in the English Department this semester, Juan Flores, an expert in Puerto Rican identity from City University of New York, will be teaching in Romance Languages and Literatures next...
None of these is uniquely American. All take on a peculiarly American cast. "What, then," asked a visiting Frenchman, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, back in the 1780s, "is this American, this new man?" The things and images in these pages represent some of the ways in which Americans themselves have created their partial and sometimes contradictory answers to that riddle...
...particularly memorable music, a cheerfully tongue-in-cheek plot and caricatures obviously intended to be as farcical as possible. Set in the fictitious Pueblo Cito, a "backward little town" on the coast of Spain, the story revolves around three principal characters: El Bean (Tim Arnold '00), a famous matador; Hector (Elie Mystal '00), a sleazy politician; and Ana Sanchez (Tonia d'Amelio '00), a village girl whose fiance was trampled to death by bulls...
...Bean arrives at Pueblo Cito incognito the day before he is scheduled to appear at the town's annual bullfight, only to lose his memory when he is accidentally hit on the head by a pole. Finding speech notes dropped by Hector, he concludes that he is a politician and identifies himself as such. Meanwhile, Hector is mistaken by the townspeople for El Bean, and decides to use the error to his own advantage. Further complications arise when El Bean meets and falls in love with Ana, whose parents--or rather, whose mother--wish her to marry the great matador...