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...band of Spanish explorers comes upon a California valley where grapes are plentiful. "The grape is good. It will sustain us," proclaims the No. 1 conquistador, ordering the group to put down roots right there. But wait: here come two more men with a load of grapes from the next valley over. The comandante takes a taste, then spits them out with a grimace. "You call these grapes?" he cries. "They taste like Fresno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Raisin in the Fun: Fresno | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Citizens' Party presidential candidate Sonia Johnson told an audience of about 40 at Radeliffe's Bunting Institute yesterday that if she were elected President, her first day in office she will announce a national emergency plan to eradicate the "conquistador mentality from our culture...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Citizens Party Candidate Johnson Says Women Make Better Presidents | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...Unfaithfully Yours, Dudley Moore delivers his best comic performance to date, confirming that his bubbling talents in Arthur can sparkle even when his character doesn't guzzle champagne. Instead of playing the caricatured drunk (Arthur) or the caricatured sex conquistador (10), with Claude, Moore gives his most balanced characterization yet. Moore, an Oxford graduate degree holder in music and an accompolished jazz artist, plays the conductor comfortably and convincingly...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hilarious Marriage | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

Writer Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers) and Director Costa-Gavras (Z) know how to use movie archetypes to manipulate political loyalties. The Israeli prosecutor has the superior smile of a bureaucrat conquistador. The Palestinian is tall, thin, suntanned, nice to babies; and he has unflinching crystal blue eyes (would they lie to you?). And yet, the film bends over backward to seem fair to its swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Raking Up the Autumn Leavings | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

This year's all-male, pun-filled Hasty Pudding Theatrical production will concern a battle of the sexes between conquistador's and Amazons and is set on a jungle island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Hopes 'Belles' Sells | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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