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  • Mr. Urrea tries to enliven things with a love story between Teresita and a roughneck Americano named John Van Order.

    Threatening Weather on Menace Beach Sam Sacks 2011

  • To Tomás's rambunctious Spanglish diatribes and Teresita's patient ministrations, Mr. Urrea adds a glut of barely integrated historical summaries and piquant period trivia—the "Mexican style" of indicating numbers with the hand is to include the thumb, readers may or may not be interested to learn, while Americans use just their fingers.

    Threatening Weather on Menace Beach Sam Sacks 2011

  • While MacArthur grant recipient and recent White House appointee to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Teresita Fernandez produced a caramelized sugar-almond paste reproduction of a 1930s house by architect Gregory Ain.

    Benedetta Pignatelli: Honey, I Ate the Art Benedetta Pignatelli 2011

  • Now he has continued the saga with "Queen of America" Little, Brown, 491 pages, $25.99 , a colorful, exuberant and immensely silly story of Teresita's peregrinations in the U.S. at the turn of the century.

    Threatening Weather on Menace Beach Sam Sacks 2011

  • While MacArthur grant recipient and recent White House appointee to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Teresita Fernandez produced a caramelized sugar-almond paste reproduction of a 1930s house by architect Gregory Ain.

    Benedetta Pignatelli: Honey, I Ate the Art Benedetta Pignatelli 2011

  • While MacArthur grant recipient and recent White House appointee to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Teresita Fernandez produced a caramelized sugar-almond paste reproduction of a 1930s house by architect Gregory Ain.

    Benedetta Pignatelli: Honey, I Ate the Art Benedetta Pignatelli 2011

  • This could be a tremendously interesting starting point, as this is a rich seam to mine in the history of art—think of homages of one painter to another—and in the work of the other artists represented in this exhibition, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernández, Douglas Gordon and especially Ellen Harvey.

    An Eruption in Margate Paul Levy 2011

  • He probably was able to defuse the anger a bit last night in the arms of Teresita Bonita, his Latin trannie hooker of choice.

    Think Progress » Extreme Right Wing Of GOP Leads Health Reform Repeal Effort, Pledges To Repeal ‘The Whole Thing’ 2010

  • This is very common, and so Juan becomes Juanito, Juana becomes Juanita and Teresa becomes Teresita.

    Questions on hiring in Mexico 2009

  • Teresita Urrea, the "Saint of Cabora," was a poor Mexican girl, born in 1873, renowned for her healing powers.

    Threatening Weather on Menace Beach Sam Sacks 2011

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