The condensation rolls down the twinkling green of my bottle of Presidente beer as the strains of bachata music wallop the atmosphere. People are laughing and dancing a little, my foot is tapping, and I am having a great time. Where am I? A bar? A club? A gig? No, I am in the Dominican Republic and I am at the car wash. For Dominicans, the car wash is the place to party.
This phenomenon was illustrated recently by the erstwhile "acquaintance" of Silvio Berlusconi, Marysthell GarcÃa Polanco. If you've been keeping abreast of the sex and drug allegations surrounding the Italian prime minister, you may have read that Polanco, a model from the Dominican Republic, is famous in Italy for appearing in the "sexy car wash" segment of a reality show on one of Berlusconi's TV stations. This would cause few surprises in her homeland: in fact many would speculate she gave the idea to the producers in a moment of questionable art imitating life.
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