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Died. Dennis Chavez, 74, a descendant of Spanish pioneers, who served six terms as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico; of a heart attack; in Washington. Devoted to the task of getting federal funds for his water-short state, roughly a third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed...
Novelist Bell writes this way, and it must have seemed to him that the technique was ideally suited to his scheme, which was to portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid...
Spiritually, Underwood feels that he is the descendant of William Blake: "Like Blake, I rewrite the Bible in my mind and then use my interpretation for my work." Biblical or not, the sculptures always carry a message, and they do so in a strange mixture of whimsy and anguish. The...
Whisky& Willowy Women. Subject to approval by the Bank of England and the French Ministry of Finance-which so far have declined any public comment on the sale-the 166-year-old British firm plans to put approximately $3,000,000 into Chateau Latour precisely in order to bypass middlemen...
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic Italian film, though scarcely a linear descendant of Boccaccio, 1313-1375. Curvilinear stars Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren lose nothing in translation.