Word: conquistador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While not romantic in any articulated sense. Baillic's films are imbued with a strong strain of self-conscious rural nostalgia, a feeling for the past that is at once sentimental and dismembered. His films document man assuming the central persona of conquistador in his environmental relationships. The natural is defined as the pastoral, fragmented by the threatening angles of girders and consumed by the relentless forward movement of concrete progress. More explicitly, the natural world for Baillie is a world in which light plays freely; in man's world light is confined refracted, or invented (for instance...
SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Arnold Palmer, Gay Brewer and Juan ("Chi Chi") Rodriguez compete at the El Conquistador Hotel in Las Croabas, Puerto Rico...
...will also be American Indians, Appalachian whites and Mexican-Americans led by California's César Chávez, who organized the successful Delano farmworkers' strikes, and New Mexico's Reies Tijerina, whose abortive attempt to "reclaim" land last year made him a latter-day conquistador in Spanish-American eyes...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Chris topher Plummer gives a forceful interpretation of the stormy Conquistador Pizarro in Peru...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN is a dazzling theatrical spectacle but fails to touch the nerve center of drama. Still, Christopher Plummer gives a forceful interpretation of the stormy Conquistador Pizarro in Peru...