Word: castilian
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...Antonio Saura, 34, is a slender Castilian who abandoned surrealism for the most tortured expressionism seen in present-day Spanish art. He sprays cynicism as he sprays his oils: "A renaissance of the arts in Spain today?" says he. "Oh come now. It is an art of protest against officialdom. The present cultural level is pretty grim. The artist must sell abroad if he is to survive...
...scraping vestige of itself, and her producers have made her seem an interloper on her own set. More happily, The Danny Kaye Show (also CBS) has been a thorough delight and need only be maintained. There is no thematic thread-just Danny Kaye, pronouncing Los Angeles in approximate Castilian ("Loth Antheleth") or changing My Fair Lady lyrics into baseball songs like Why Can't a Woman Be More Like...
...Paris, the old-fashioned bonnes are few and far between. Taking their place are hordes of Spaniards, who are streaming across the border with dilapidated luggage in dilapidated buses from Valencia and Alicante, Seville, Extremadura, and the poorer Castilian provinces, lured by wages that are roughly seven times what they are in Spain...
INTIMATES of Spain's new Vice Premier often call him Facha -a Castilian expression implying "What a sight!" Though he is a dandy in his uniform, Agustin Munoz Grandes has never liked the pomp of his office as chief of Spain's General Staff, and has remained a relatively modest man. He regularly attends soccer games in Madrid dressed in sports clothes more suitable to a workman; he and his wife live in a small, unpretentious apartment, and he rolls his own small black cigarettes. Unlike other Cabinet ministers who tool around Madrid in chauffeur-driven Cadillacs...
meeting: "It was done entre gallos y medianoche"-a Castilian expression for an evil deed committed between midnight and cock's crow...