Word: andalusians
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...16th century, Spain built a buffer province near the headwaters of the Rio Grande to shield her Mexican territories from possible French incursion. Transported to a wild, 600,000-acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New Mexico's Rio Arriba county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes...
Blue-eyed "Anglos" now run the county and own its major farms and ranches. The land grants were wrested from the owners by taxation, fraud and theft as well as legal purchase. Descendants of the Andalusian pioneers live in squalid adobe shacks. Of the county's 23,000 people, 19,000 are Spanish Americans, and 11,000 are on welfare. Schools are bad, roads impossible except for a single badly potholed highway. Those who still own plots are discouraged from grazing their cattle in the national forests that occupy much of the county. Fenced out from their Tierra Amarilla...
...proved endlessly enriching. The taste for decorative, geometric art is still shown in Spain's intricate metalwork and cabinetry. The turn-of-the-century architect, Antoni Gaudi, resorted in his unfinished Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona to restless linear rhythms that recall the Moorish Alhambra. Andalusian laments still recall an Arab origin, and even the haunting cries of flamenco suit a caliph better than a king...
...described last winter in Gstaad, Switzerland, made it sound like a perfect spring vacation. As Robin Duke, wife of U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, pictured the annual fair in Seville, it was the essence of Spain, a six-day post-Lenten fiesta with superb bull fighting, Andalusian flamenco dancing all night long in the fair's tent village, colorful parades and a marvelous ball. What's more, the Duchess of Alba would be all too glad to have Jacqueline Kennedy as her guest...
...smaller parts varied widely in quality. As well as playing Mosquito, a sort of Andalusian sprite, Wendy Miller took two bit parts and was delightfully joyous in all of them. Frederick Davis, Larry Gonick, Ken Sateriale, and Peter McKenzie, as villagers of all sorts, ranged from fair to unfortunate...