Word: caballos
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...motifs that no European artist was likely to grasp but that were of deep significance to Lam -- the symbols of Santeria ceremonies. Why do Lam's women have heads like horses? Not, fundamentally, because of Picasso and Guernica but because in Santeria ceremonies the medium is known as a caballo, a "horse" carrying the spirit...
...meters was won by Soviet Victor Markin, 23, in 44.60, the fastest time recorded in the event in two years. Finishing a game but distant fourth was Alberto Juantorena, 29, called El Caballo (the Horse) in 1976 when he breezed to victories in the 400 and 800. This time, the Cuban was off his form, still suffering the effects of Achilles' tendon surgery last fall. He was a scratch...
Karol found el Caballo-"the Horse," as the peasants affectionately refer to Castro-personally vibrant. "Fidel finds it difficult to sit still while he speaks. He moves about all the time, gets up, takes a few steps, sits down, stalks back and forth as if every argument were a kind of hand-to-hand struggle with a wily opponent." Castro has spent altogether too much time serving as a national ombudsman, Karol complains, forever touring the country and leaving the government to bureaucrats. "The new proletarian class," reports Karol acidly, "is quite unable to control and use the bureaucracy...
...wealthy Buenos Aires architect, who has worked as a welfare volunteer and is eager to fight poverty in the rural U.S. Her only exposure to the countryside to date has been on her father's 8,000-acre estancia 250 miles from Buenos Aires, where she rides a caballo criollo-an Argentinian equivalent of the American cow pony-among a herd of 2,000 Aberdeen Angus. She will probably be assigned to Appalachia...
...Miami came word that students at Cubela's old stomping ground, the University of Havana, had staged an angry demonstration, with a black-draped coffin, signs reading, "If Cubela dies, so do you, Fidel!" and an ancient horse-in jeering reference to Castro's nickname, el Caballo (the horse...
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