Word: broodingness
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No one is more delighted at all the bustle than Francisco Franco, the stubby (5 ft. 3 in.) Galician general who is now in his 30th year as "Caudillo (literally: commander or headman) of Spain by the Grace of God." And quite probably, no one is more surprised. For until...
Over the Howls. In desperation, Franco turned to his young Commerce Minister, Alberto Ullastres, a brooding ascetic who had been arguing futilely for change. On a hot July day in 1959, Ullastres announced a sweeping stabilization plan. Credit was tightened, the budget slashed, the peseta devalued to a realistic 60...
Double Standard. Cameron vividly captures much of the flavor of that tense, troubled country with its brooding sense of danger and its "cult of camouflage." North Viet Nam, he says, is "a land where everyone considers it necessary to live in disguise, to inhabit his own country pretending he is...
Herdar Freiburg. $19. When Troy fell 3,000 years ago, the warrior Odysseus, king of Ithaca, set sail for home. The direct route was only 550 miles, but Odysseus was b'own all over the Mediterranean, took te'n years to reach his native land. Homer first recorded...
When not brooding over his chilly theologies on film, Swedish Director (The Silence) Ingmar Bergman, 47, has spent the past two winters fussing with a lot of undramatic details as director and chief administrator of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater. His name alone would have kept the distinguished house...