Word: amparo
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...call to his head clerk. Plainclothes cops, the loyal employee reported, had been riffling through the store's ample stock of pornographic novels and postcards, and were awaiting the owner's arrival. The owner, however, hastened to a district judge and got a magic writ called an amparo. When he walked into the store soon afterward and the detectives tried to arrest him, he produced the amparo. With a sigh of frustration, the cops shut the books and went away. The bookseller could be reasonably sure that they would not bother him again for another three months...
Last week, Amparo set out to show her brother, and the public,"what she can do on her own. She picked a bad time and a worse place: Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, the night the Republican convention opened. When she finished Liszt's bombastic Piano Concerto No. 1, the 5,000 people in the Dell cheered. The critics cheered too, but less noisily: Amparo had some of her brother's lightning in her fingers, but not enough of his thunder...
...Amparo, who is three years younger than Jose, flares up when she is called his pupil, but admits that "Jose...
...children in Valencia, she sang while Jose played the piano. When Jose went to the Paris Conservatory, Amparo wanted to go too, but Jose said no: "It's all work. One gets nothing but exhaustion. And [for her] it's not necessary." That is why, she says, she is still a "kind of wild pianist." At 18, Amparo arrived in Paris under her own steam, made her debut as a pianist six years later. Finally, just before the Spanish civil war broke out, Jose persuaded her to join...
Long divorced from her Spanish husband, Amparo lives in Beverly Hills with her 17-year-old daughter Amparin. Amparo believes that concertizing "is a crazy life," though she has lined up a 30-concert tour for fall. She also plans to make recordings, though she regards the process as "the ultimate torture of our century...