Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
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What Americans call a goat-fuck, an unstable, tottering, towering pile of photographers and TV crews, had appeared.
Cuba was the last of the independent Latin American countries to throw off the Spanish yoke and the first to become a full-fledged neo-colony of the United States.
