Living: Earth And Fire

Latin flair adds color and spice to American styles

The word is sensibilidad. It refers to a quality of temperament easier to recognize than define, a spacious basket of subtleties: strength without roughness, pride tempered with humor, a hint of festival, a tinge of tragedy. Like the monolithic term Hispanic, it tends to blur the individual colors of each distinct Latin culture, and yet artists, designers, actors and authors from all corners of Latin culture resort to the word when others fail to capture just what is most infectious about a Latin sense of style.

This sensibilidad is changing the way America looks, the way it eats, dresses, drinks, dances,...

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