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...battle scenes already filmed on Saragossa's Los Monegros plains would have to be done over somewhere else. (Saragossa has already turned too cold.) Scouting parties spread out to the Canary Islands, and Málaga and Almeria on Spain's south coast. But it is not easy to find a sunny desert replete with enough Spanish soldiers (about 2,000) and enough horses (about 200). For a while, Ty's business partner, Ted Richmond, even considered Israel, finally gave up the idea because of a shortage of Israeli troops and possible international complications. ("What would Nasser...
Mechanical Echoes. Gonzalez has been trying different things most of his life. Born 56 years ago in the Spanish town of Almeria, he moved as a child to Mexico. He took a correspondence course in mechanical drawing, at the age of 19 got a job with a railroad. Gonzalez' job was to rush out to places on the line where a train had broken down, make a fast drawing of the defective part so that a replacement could be fashioned in the railroad shop. Gonzalez says this experience is the reason "echoes of the mechanical appear in some...
...fuss was kicked up in the first place by Jesus de Perceval, a sleepy-eyed but ambitious young painter from Almeria. Last month, at the opening of Madrid's Hispano-American Art Biennale, Perceval drew the critics' praise for his Beheading of the Innocents, a large Renaissance-style canvas with eclectically costumed figures, including Roman soldiers, Andalusian mothers and a sky full of angels and DC-6s. The artist was personally congratulated by Franco himself...
...pleased, little Eleanor at nine discovered George Borrow's Lavengro, the classic of gypsy life. Then & there she "knew perfectly well that Borrow's books had changed -forever - my life. . . ." Eventually she found what she was looking for - primitive, half-naked, arrogant gypsies in sultry caves near Almeria in Spain; nude flamenco dancers in the dives of Barcelona; tinkering tribes in the forest of Rumania; Andalusian gypsies who cured her fever with feverish music. But Lady Eleanor's stories of the gypsies are curiously impersonal and sketchy...
...Quintanilla drawings show war's effects on the streets of Madrid and Almeria, on the villagers of Andalusia surprised by bombing and strafing airplanes, on Moorish, Italian, German and Spanish prisoners, on wounded men in hospitals. Seeming as delicately bitten as etchings, they were done with a fine quill pen in a uniformly unexcited style. Ruins of masonry, the broken bodies of the dead, the brutalized bodies of the living, all were recorded with the same hard outline and shading, the same careful, slightly grotesque composition. By this apparent monotony and coldness Artist Quintanilla made a profile of Spain...