Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pacific, he wrote mostly in a serialistic orchestral style, but at one point bounced golf balls on the strings of a piano to underline the irrational hatred between the film's antagonists, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. In the recent Che!, he suggested the primitiveness of the Bolivian mountains by conjuring up an original score based on the sullen, pentatonic folk music of the ancient Inca tribes, even using native instruments like the armadillo (strings stretched across an armadillo shell). The film was a disaster, but Schifrin's score won widespread acclaim...
...Sierra Maestra of South America, Castro hoped to export revolution to all of Latin America. Indeed, twelve governments have accused him of exporting subversion and supplying arms to guerrillas in their countries; nowhere did he score a real success. In 1967, his dream of victory was punctured by the Bolivian army bullets that killed Che Guevara, his longtime aide and strategist. In the wake of Che's death, Fidel slowed down his revolutionary activity, and his threat to Latin America began to wane. One reason was that local Communists regarded Castro as a competitor and did not help his guerrillas...
...take exception to your qualification of Bolivia's army as "ineffectual." If effectiveness is the capacity to perform specific tasks, it is well to remember that the Bolivian army successfully and speedily dealt with the guerrillas organized by the infamous Che Guevara, who was considered, together with Chairman Mao and General Giap, the supreme specialist in that kind of warfare. If the U.S. Army, with its fantastically superior might, had been proportionately as successful in dealing with the Communist threat in Southeast Asia, I am sure you wouldn't have thought of calling it ineffectual...
Careers have been built on a lot less, but then Raquel started with a lot less. Daughter of a Bolivian engineer named Armand Tejada, Raquel moved to La Jolla, Calif., in 1944, when she was two. The proximity to Hollywood was not wasted on the skinny, ambitious child. At 15, she had a lead role in the local Mexican festival. After a little TV and some modeling, she decided, at 21, to make it in the movies...
Cuban enthusiasm for further participation in third world revolutionary movements remain high. Gerassi said, even a year after Guevara's death and the collapse of the Bolivian guerrilla movement. "I think every kid in Cuba was willing to go to Bolivia with Che," he noted...