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...Jean Giraudoux were foreign service officers; Poet St. John Perse (actually Alexis Leger) rose to the No. 2 post at the Quai; and Stendhal wrote The Charterhouse of Parma while in the diplomatic corps. Richelieu once effortlessly composed a 500-line insert for Corneille's verse drama, Le Cid, to replace a passage of the author's that Richelieu thought in bad taste...
...been rumblings from the Pardo that Bronston's heroes were not Spanish. So, to smooth his position in Iberia and to dazzle the world at large, he poured the $10 million and every additional cent he could muster into a biography of Spain's national hero, El Cid Campeador. He hired Charlton Ben-Heston and Sophia Loren. He acquired thousands of extras from the Spanish army. He erected cities, opened rivers, and reproduced 11th century Spain. Money meant nothing. By now, he had Pierre du Pont and a titanic Manhattan bank standing behind him like attentive janizaries...
Rome Refallen. He has followed El Cid with 55 Days at Peking (TIME, Sept. 14). An $800,000 Peking rose out of the rainless plains northwest of Madrid only to be razed by fire at the picture's climax, with Ava Gardner and Charlton Ming-Heston caught in the fumes. Now he is filming The Fall of the Roman Empire (Sophia Loren, James Mason, Alec Guinness), and next he will re-create The Circus, Paris 1900 and The French Revolution...
Among other forebears of the Queen, not all recognized by Burke's, are Shakespeare, three clergymen, an innkeeper, Frederick the Great of Prussia, a plumber, and Spain's11th century hero, Rodrigo (El Cid) Diaz de Bivar. Elizabeth's surviving kinsfolk include eight-year-old Kira Alexandrine Harris of Amarillo, Texas...
These performances are certainly worth seeing. But it is the few scenes (like the two I've mentioned) that make El Cid some thing special. All in all, there are worse places to spend three hours these humid, humdrum days than the H.S.T. One word of warning, however: Cambridge kids evidently agree with me, and they're going in droves; so every show is a little like a Saturday afternoon Kartoon Karnival. But you can just throw a pop-corn box back at the little bastards, and bury yourself again in the Infinemascope screen and Delightful Air-Conditioning...