West Side Story - Dreams and Realities of America
Anita: [sings; [Puerto Rico]
], my heart's devotion,Let it sink back in the ocean.Always the hurricanes blowing,Always the population growingAnd the money owing,And the sunlight streamingAnd the natives steaming.I like the island of Manhattan,Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
Girls: [sings]
I like to be in America,OK by me in America,Everything free in America!
Bernardo: [sings]
For a small fee in America.
Anita: [sings]
Buying on credit is so nice.
Bernardo: [sings]
One look at us and they charge twice.
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West Side Story - Cultural Clash and Generational Perspectives in America
Bernardo:
Now I will not say these things to spoil your evening or to hear myself talk. I am here longer than you, Maria...Someday, when you're an old married woman with five children, then you can tell me what to do. Right now, it's the other way around. Now go to bed.
Anita: [To Maria; To Bernardo]
He's the old married woman. You know, she has a mother. Also a father.
Bernardo:
They do not know this country any better than she does.
Anita:
And you do not know it at all. Girls here are free to have fun. She is in America now.
Bernardo:
Puerto Rico is in America now.
Anita:
Sometimes I don't know which is thicker. Your skull or your accent.
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West Side Story - Authority and Tension in Urban Conflict
Schrank:
You hoodlums don't own these streets. And I've had all the rough-house I can put up with around here. You want to kill each other? Kill each other, but you ain't gonna do it on my beat. Are there any questions?
Bernardo:
Yes, sir. Would you mind translating that into Spanish?
Schrank:
Get your friends out of here, Bernardo - and stay out - please.
Bernardo:
Okay, Sharks. Vamonos.
Schrank: [Puerto Ricans]
Boy, as if this neighborhood wasn't crummy enough. Now look, fellas. Fellas? Look, let's be reasonable, huh? If I don't get a little law and order around here, I get busted down to a traffic corner. And your friend don't like traffic corners. So that means you're gonna start makin nice with the PRs from now on. I said nice - GET IT! Cause if you don't, and I catch any of ya doing any more brawlin in my territory, I'm gonna personally beat the living crud out of each and every one of yas and see that you go to the can and rot there. Say goodbye to the nice boys, Krupke.
Krupke:
Goodbye boys.
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