Word: cortez
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...Montezuma by the American composer Roger Sessions. It is a spectacle of formidable musical and technical dimensions that Caldwell has wanted to stage for years. In 1971, just to get the feel of the thing, she went to Mexico and retraced the victory trail of the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez. Last week she was back again, studying the pyramids in Teotihuacan...
...Serpent. The result is a send-up that anyone who has ever groaned through an overfootnoted attempt at scholarship will relish. Of a Mexican bartender Finney writes: "His forefathers came to this country a little after Hernando Cortez. His foremothers, Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs, were already here." A child devoured by a sea serpent is disposed of in an equally deadpan manner: "For seven years he was a diner; then for a few minutes he was a dinner. Ultimately he was incorporated into the cell structure of the sea serpent, a distinction he did not enjoy." Horses are "anachronisms less...
...Jacqueline Susann said that she had always wanted to write about "women in their prime who lose their husbands by death or divorce," the results were predictable. The current Ladies' Home Journal contains a 15,000-word novelette (Dolores) that reads -well, like art imitating life. Pantherlike Dolores Cortez is widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon...
...Furniers had warnings early on. Even though Vince was not especially musical (he still plays only the harmonica), he would dress up to imitate Elvis Presley or Ricky Nelson. Later, as a sophomore at Cortez High, he organized his first band, the Earwigs. "It wasn't a band, it was a joke," says his older sister Nickie. He also wrote sports and feature stories for the school paper under the ironic pseudonym Muscles McNasal - Muscles because he was so skinny, McNasal because of a misshapen nose. It seems that Vince bravely concluded a marathon run, then went home...
WEDNESDAY: Cortoz and Montezama Documentary special on the improbable conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish conquistadore Hernando Cortez, CH. 7, 8 p.m. Color...