Word: figueroa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable why the audience sometimes wonders about the credibility of the husband's behavior. Flimsy flashbacks and lack of continuity reinforce this weakness: The photography can also be criticized for rarely presenting a true white or black on the screen. But director Luis Bunel and photographer Garbriel Figueroa redeem themselves in the climactic scene where the husband's contact with reality slips and the camera sees the world through his eyes. The result is frightening. It also makes the end anticlimactic...
Sentenced to 75 years, with parole eligibility in 25 years, were Lolita's henchmen: Rafael Cancel Miranda, 25, Andres Figueroa Cordero, 29, and Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28. They had also been convicted of a graver offense: assault with intent to kill...
...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...
...Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road and the Italian Shoe Shine. In some respects it is the most powerful and ruthless...
Died. Alvaró de Figueroa y Torres, Count de Romanones, 87, "el travieso conde" (the mischievous count), one of Spain's richest grandees, thrice Premier under the late King Alfonso XIII; in Madrid. A sturdy Monarchist, whose Punch-like profile was once a symbol of Bourbon Spain for European political cartoonists, Count de Romanones retired from active politics in 1931, soon after the Republicans forced the King into exile...