Word: ctor
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...convention by schoolbus, he meets Tabatha (Halley Feiffer), just back from Belgium, who claims to write French mysteries about a stable hand named Pierre. Tabatha sees potential in “Yeast Lords,” and with the help of her friend Lonnie Donaho (Héctor Jiménez), who has a speech impediment, a bowl haircut, and most importantly, a production company, she decides to turn it into a low-budget film...
...contrast to the U.S., where training is haphazard except at a few top companies, many Latin countries have excellent ballet schools, often subsidized by the government, where youngsters are put through a rigorous classical regimen. Spain boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Bjart dancer Vctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Coln in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided over by the indomitable Alonso...
Alicia, who does not inquire too deeply into how her husband Roberto (the excellent Hctor Alterio) happens to be doing so well in business, finds herself compelled to look more carefully into her child's background. Frustration with the utter lack of documentation--obviously it was in the state's interest not to keep records--leads to obsession. And obsession leads to a belated political awakening, including a recognition that she would not have this child were Roberto not so involved with an evil regime. It also brings her, at last, into contact with a woman who is probably...
...first peaceful constitutional change of government in 25 years should have been a signal event in Bolivian politics. But the way in which the new President was selected cast a pall over last week's inauguration ceremonies for Vctor Paz Estenssoro, 77. Paz Estenssoro had narrowly lost the popular vote in the July 14 election to former President Hugo Banzer Surez, 58. But because neither candidate drew more than 50% of the vote, the final choice was left to Congress. Although both men proposed similarly conservative programs, leftist legislators saw Paz Estenssoro as the lesser of two evils...
...called the tango. Not the basic dance you learned at Arthur Murray. This is the tango that got its start in the bordellos of Buenos Aires a century ago and even today seems almost shocking in its arrant sensuality. "The tango expresses something deep in our personalities," says Hctor Orezzoli, who conceived the revue along with his friend Claudio Segovia. "The dance is tortuous, complicated, intricate, mysterious, rough, but also sophisticated and full of humor and irony...