Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oceanside residents rushed to seaward windows, fearing a tidal wave; they heard only distant foghorns. Hill dwellers peered down at the San Fernando Valley and were shocked at the sight of fiery blue arcs rising from electrical explosions and plumes of water erupting from broken mains. On the valley floor, Jack Speyer dashed from his second-floor bedroom in Glendale brandishing a baseball bat, certain that a burglar was ransacking the rooms below. Twelve days overdue in her pregnancy, a woman near the quake's center knew only that labor had finally begun. At a 24-hour supermarket...
...jolting first shock, followed by literally hundreds of smaller aftershocks, struck hardest at the Los Angeles commuting area in the San Fernando Valley, which has a population of 1.3 million...
...collapsed building, the Veterans Administration hospital facility in the San Fernando Valley, authorities said seven bodies have been found, while 54 persons are still unaccounted...
...agony of defeat was over. Harvard had beaten Page, but with that victory the Crimson would leave the collegiate ranks. When Terrell, John Ince and Fernando Gonzalez picked up their awards, it was their bon voyage ceremony. Page and seven of his teammates would be back. So Palmer stood in the audience accepting the congratulations of the spectators and enjoying the feeling of being number one, while Harvard packed its trophies...
Bunuel's Tristana, which stars Catherine Dencuve, closed the Festival. The story is reminiscent of Viridinana: a beautiful young girl dressed in black enters the home of her guardian (Fernando Rey, who also played the uncle in Viridiana ); she becomes his mistress, then his wife; she destroys him. Loss of innocence is a favorite Bunuel theme, and Deneuve's progression from blond virgin to black widow is a passionate, nearly religious journey. What most marks the film is the blend of heresy and humanism for which Bunuel is distinguished...