Word: conquistadors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volume is Fuku, an 87-page autobiographical odyssey that combines verse and narrative. The title is attributed to an African word used by Latin-American peasants to describe con men and exploiters. Yevtushenko has a little list, starting with Christopher Columbus, whom he evokes as a gold-hungry conquistador and an impatient actor on the set of a television mini-series (" 'When will this all end?!' grumbled Columbus, feeling his face to see if his gray beard had come unglued. 'Somebody, bring me a gin and tonic...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...