Word: charro
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...crowd pleaser. People know the Mexican Hat Dance, but we’re trying to show other regions that haven’t been showcased as often.” One such energetic piece, “Zacatecano,” features men in tight charro suits and women in full skirts. It originates from the state of Zacatecas...
...other odd ities. His commitment to the church be came obsessive. He said the rosary every night with his family, went to Mass three times a week and recently went on a retreat. Curiously, although no one has ever seen him on a horse, Corona recently joined the El Charro Association, a society dedicated to promoting horsemanship in the Mexican tradition. He often went to his brother's bar at night, but never drank. Said one farm worker: "He would just sit silently and look at the rest of us." A year ago he and his brother were defendants...
...could have have explained the urgency of his followers' needs. But such an unraveling of the misunderstanding never took place because Zapata, the excellent guerrilla tactician, was unable to wheel and deal at conferences. He bucked himself up for his important meeting with Pancho Villa by masquerading as part charro, an elegant cowboy, and part gypsy, rings and scarves and a lavender shirt. All through the meeting, Zapata hardly spoke. Glowering and slumped in the official photograph, he looked less like the "Attila of the South" than like a poor village president who had been brought up before the bigwigs...
...onetime barber and carpenter, Pedro Infante broke into the movies 15 years ago and quickly rose to fame as a last man with a gun or a girl, and a mellow man with a lyric. Dressed in his familia charro jacket and wide sombrero, he drew mobs wherever he went in Latin America -and most of the crowd was female, proudly claimed 14 children, legitimate and illegitimate. His wife Maria Luisa put up with his escapades for 18 years but he divorced her five years ago and married Actress Irma Dorantes. Just two weeks ago the Supreme Court nullified...
...prominent Washington bachelors were vacationing at the Del Charro Hotel in La Jolla, Calif, last week, and a local reporter asked one of them to give his opinion of the other. Said FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in one of his extremely rare personal endorsements: "Senator Joe McCarthy is an exmarine. He was an amateur boxer. He's Irish. Combine those, and you're going to have a vigorous individual who is not going to be pushed around...