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...Conquistador of the useless," a rival calls Fitzcarraldo. Fitz says: "I am the spectacle in the forest." This is Herzog talking, of course, not Kinski or Fitzcarraldo. Or rather, Herzog is all his characters, all his actors. He is the dreamer, the savage, the engulfing river. This time, Herzog steered his craft through rapids and longueurs, outside dangers and his own follies. A madman and a survivor: a moviemaking Ahab who lived to tell his fabulous tale. -By Richard Corliss
...biggest news at Saratoga last week came when Industrialist Henryk de Kwiatkowski announced that his Belmont Stakes winner, Conquistador Cielo, had been syndicated to a group of breeders for $36.4 million, making him the most expensive horse in history. Meanwhile, all week long, a favored few took their reserved seats inside Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion and fascinated onlookers gathered before outdoor monitors to view the auctions of untried yearlings for stratospheric sums. In one wild bidding session, a world-record filly price of $2.1 million was paid for a daughter of The Minstrel. After four tense evenings, traders had ponied...
...came a number of rather conventional but polished lyrics. "A poem should be wordless/ As the flight of birds," ran the most celebrated one, "Ars Poetica." "A poem should not mean/ But be." But larger ideas were stirring. MacLeish went to Mexico to write the epic of Cortez, and Conquistador won him a Pulitzer for 1932. But by then there were other demands on his talent...
...COVENANT by James A. Michener Random House; 873 pages; $15.95 James Michener is the last conquistador...
This phase of Shaffer's career began with The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). In that play, Atahuallpa, who is both emperor and god of the Incas, is executed by the order of Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador. The most desolating moment of the play comes when Pizarro, who has lost faith in the Christian God, hopes against hope that Atahuallpa will be resurrected before his eyes. He is not. In Equus (1973), a boy blinds horses because he believes them to be gods who have witnessed his sinful transgressions. He duels with a psychoanalyst. Decrying his own dried...