Word: antonios
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...Tony Smith [Sept. 14] did a sculpture, Asteriskos, that was purchased for the San Antonio HemisFair '68 by Mr. and Mrs. Catto...
...Antonio Como (José Luis López Vásquez) is a once powerful industrialist reduced by an automobile accident to a virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before...
...Antonio is partially snapped back to reality by hearing a recording of a fraudulently liberal speech he once delivered to his workers. As he returns to his place at the head of the company's conference table, though, he can do no better than recite his previous year's speech to the board of directors. He cannot even successfully kill his petulant wife, who laughs at him as he tries to push her from a rowboat crying, "An American Tragedy!" He ultimately realizes that he can never recover amid such macabre people-all of whom are as crippled...
...truth, but could never find the words. Occasionally his housekeeper of more than 40 years, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, would try to persuade him to "resign" because of his health, but each time he would reply: "I cannot go. There is no one else." When Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal for 36 years, died at 81 last week from the effects of a heart attack and a kidney infection, he was still unaware that he had lost his authority...
...fine garden that Antonio Carrozzi kept. There were tall, aggressive beanstalks. Jungles of pregnant tomato vines. Ears of corn like golden footballs. And out front, placed there to conceal the tempting vegetables from passersby, 300 spindly marijuana plants...