Word: chica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revived the T-formation, invented the man-in-motion initiated the use of spread ends. He was the first coach to use movies regularly for spotting mistakes and plotting strategy. ("They ran the same play 30 times, without saying a word," marveled an onlooker at one early Chica go screening session. "Finally someone said, 'It's the goddamned guard,' and the meeting was over.") Now that everybody else has stolen his stuff, George Halas has come up with something new -and the Chicago Bears are probably on their way to their eighth National Football League championship. Halas...
...with knife drawn. In Peru's recent presidential elections, the three leading candidates presented themselves more as messiahs than politicians, and it was not accidental that each was the founder of his own party. In Mexico, convivial gossip about a prominent man inevitably rolls around to his casa chica -the love nest where he keeps his mistress. "We expect them to have mistresses," says one wealthy married Mexican lady. "After all, they...
...Whatever Chica wanted, Chica got. Her husband built her a palace with gilded rooms, turrets and landscaped gardens. At parties, she made her entrance down a marble staircase while small boys scattered flowers in her path. When she wanted to go sailing, Dom João built a sea-sized private lake, ordered a sailing ship from Portugal and had it hauled from Rio to Tijuco by horse and slave...
Salute & Make Way. As the citizens of Salgueiro worked it out for this week's show, the story of Chica starts with six dancers dressed as colonial gentlemen, prancing down the street bearing a banner: "The Académicos of Salgueiro salute the people and the press and ask to make way to present the 1963 Carnival with their theme, Chica da Silva." Then come 20 men carrying gold-headed canes, wearing silk suits, suede shoes and derby hats. Behind them appear six groups of dancers, twirling, singing and high-stepping in gold buckles, white knee stockings and wigs...
...Chica da Silva herself is next, in $2,500 worth of red-and-white silk petticoats topped with a skirt embroidered with white feathers, lace, seed pearls and semiprecious stones. She wears a 3-ft. white wig, à la Marie Antoinette, and her satin train is 12 ft. long. The floats roll by-a replica of Chica's sailing ship, a group of miners pouring money and gems into Dom João's open hands-plus a second flag-bearer team, more dancers, and the percussion band. Around the whole 2,300-member group is a thick...