Word: anas
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Between Los Angeles and San Diego lies a vast tract of land that has changed little since it was bought as a ranch by James Irvine in 1864. Its 93,000 acres stretch from the Pacific across the coastal hills and into the Santa Ana Mountains, form an area six times bigger than Manhattan and one-third as big as Los Angeles. As the rest of Southern California has been built up, the land value of the Irvine ranch, bought originally for 36? an acre, has soared to an estimated $108 million...
...Communist hierarchy. (To distinguish himself from the rest of the Gheorghius, who are as common in Rumania as Smiths in the U.S., he took the added name "Dej," in honor of one of the many towns in which he had served time.) Since 1952, when he ousted the unlovely Ana Pauker, Gheorghiu-Dej has ruled Rumania without challenge, first as Premier and currently as First Party Secretary. Slow and obstinate in his mental processes, Gheorghiu-Dej is frequently mocked by Rumanians for his ignorance. But, at bottom, his cynical, pleasure-loving countrymen are proud of the fact that Gheorghiu...
...Innocence (Argentine Sono Film; Kingsley) is a shadowed, subtle, intense study of purity, sin and degeneracy. A shy, beautiful girl (Elsa Daniel) comes to adolescence in the Argentina of the late '20s. A fanatically puritanical mother has kept Ana from worldly knowledge in the most rigid Latin-American tradition. She is not allowed to see even her own nakedness-she wears a smock when she bathes. Her nanny describes flatly the penalty for unmentioned sins: "Your body will burn for evermore...
...already begun to kindle. Not knowing why, she kisses a male cousin, then nervously examines pictures thrust at her by street boys. Abruptly the world is darkened. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in simple scenes that to Ana take on a cast of evil-an old woman rapping angrily on a window with her crutch, a man's black-trousered legs visible beneath a mansion gate...
...speech on freedom of the press, then learns from a sneering member of the opposition that his own father protected his fortune by silencing newspapers that opposed him. Sickened by the revelation, he nevertheless challenges his opponent to a duel, which is to take place at the estate of Ana's father, an aristocrat who reveres honor and gloats over death. On the night before the duel, Aguirre, overcome by his sudden knowledge of meaninglessness, seduces Ana. She longs for him to die, but he kills his man. And so Ana and the politician are bound together. Director Nilsson...