Word: corte
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...yells of 70,000 partisans volleyed and thundered across Mexico City's Olympic stadium. When the tumult died down, a small man spoke into the mike. "Accepting the candidacy of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), I understand fully the grave responsibility of this nomination," said Adolfo Ruiz Cort...
Mexicans understood too. Interior Minister Ruiz Cortínez had been nominated by the official party convention as the government's candidate to succeed President Miguel Alemán. In present-day Mexico, that assures election. Barring death or accident, Adolfo Ruiz Cortínez will...
...spray gun. The mural has more force than feeling, but it is clearly in line with Siqueiros' oft-repeated theory that the right, true end of art is propaganda. His subject this time is Cuauhtémoc-the Aztec hero who tried to defend Mexico City against Cortés after the death of Montezuma. One panel shows Cuauhtémoc being tortured by the Spaniards, along with a bleeding woman and a child with its hands chopped off. Morbid? Goodness, no, said Siqueiros, "unless paintings of Christ on the Cross...
...Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue graces the Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop...
...best of the current comedies is critic Wolcott Gibbs' Season in the Sun, a clever farce about life on New York's Fire Island. (Cort...