Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They finished far ahead of such-popular favorites as Carmen Amaya, Carmen Miranda and Rosario & Antonio. Nobody questioned the justice of the verdict. After the ball was over, Raul & Eva returned to their four-to-six shows a day (divided between Broadway's Mexican Hayride and the Havana-Madrid night club) that earn them about $1,000 a week...
...jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered...
...American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto exhorting Latin America's painters to back the attack. Last January the aroused artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Siqueiros undertook a modest swing through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Mexico...
Demoniac Saint. Antonio Conselheiro believed that the Roman Catholic Church was doing the will of Satan. His morality combined the absolute license of free love with chastity exaggerated "to the point where woman is looked upon with horror"- his followers accepted half of this, and practiced free love. Because his disciples renovated abandoned cemeteries, built new churches and restored old ones, the priests "good-naturedly tolerated the excesses of this demoniac saint who at least helped to increase their dwindled revenues." By 1877 Conselheiro was famous, feared, implacable, "a species of great man gone wrong," ascetic, thin, weary-looking, half...
Death at Dusk. It took more than a three-month siege to reduce Canudos, Antonio Conselheiro died; the rebellion became a national crisis. On Oct. 5, 1897, a year after the first expedition, the last defenders of the village were killed. There were four of them, a boy, an old man, two grown men. They faced an army of 5,000 soldiers. They died in a trench which had also been dug to serve as a grave. When the soldiers stormed the trench they were paralyzed. "There before them, a tangible reality, was a trench of the dead, plastered with...