Word: flamenco
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Lola Flores, a dark-haired, deep-bosomed Spanish flamenco dancer with a throaty voice and glittering black eyes, is the current rage of Mexico City. Getting a table for her 2 a.m. show at the fashionable, mirror-ceilinged Club Capri requires luck and pull plus about 150 pesos ($16.40) per person cover charge, a record price for a Mexico City night spot. At the Iris Theater, where Lola dances before her nightclub show, tickets are priced at 15 pesos, but scalpers get as much...
...Spanish, anxious for U.S. aid and hospitable by nature, worked hard to make the fleet feel at home. A U.S. sailor's white hat was enough to get him free streetcar rides, free tickets for movies; wine was on the house in many flamenco joints. No one took exception to U.S.N. wolf-whistles at the señoritas. The Falangist Informacion Nacional helpfully printed, in its own enthusiastic English, the complete text of President Truman's State of the Union "Speack." Falangist party bigwigs were ordered not to wear their black uniforms, or to give their Fascist salute...
...father of two little girls, "Tuco" (Glowworm) Paz plays the guitar, dances to flamenco tunes, likes bebop, reads Faulkner and Dos Passes. He is the author of a prizewinning book of short stories (The Abyss), detective yarns, unpublished poetry, three volumes on Argentine government and law, and some of President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine...
Retired from the ring since 1925, Gaona now spends much of his time managing his Mexico City real-estate holdings and listening to the wild flamenco music of the Spanish gypsies, on which he has made himself an authority. Each year he follows the bullfighting season from Spain to Mexico, and like many another oldtimer rates the past over the present. Growls Gaona: "In my day the bulls were so smart that they spoke English...
Arthur Murray has been persuaded to teach the "Carmen Flamenco"; Novelist Sophie Kerr has ground out a 30-part serialization of the movie that the N.E.A. syndicate will offer to some 600 newspapers; Pocket Books, Inc. has issued a 25? edition of the Mérimée novel, plugging the movie on the cover; John Powers has selected a Carmen-type model; Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham has put Carmen on the couch for a psychoanalytical study and has concluded: "The world is full of Carmens...