Word: flamencos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flamenco Music (Jeronimo Villarino; Musicraft album). Fiery Spanish guitar work and shouting by a nightclub gypsy...
...over to a Broadway restaurant, the Beachcomber (home of the multi-rummy Zombie), for $1,000 a week and a cut of the gross. Carmen Amaya makes about $2,000 a week, keeps the Beachcomber roaring with the oles of Manhattan's Latins. For she is a flamenco (gypsy), and the best in her line since Spain's late great La Argentina...
Gypsy Amaya's show-and pay roll-includes some of her sisters and her cousins (whom she reckons up by dozens), her father, uncle and brother: 16 flamencos in all. Flamenco Agustin Castellan Sabicas is a wonderful guitarist, and Uncle Sebastian Manzano (hairy and called El Pelao, the bald one) admits to having two wives and 18 children in Spain. It is Carmen Amaya who stops the show with the wrigglings of her round rump and wiry body, the tossings of her disheveled gypsy hair, the animal fury of her tough, splash-mouthed face. In the improvised measures...
...have inherited the gypsy blood. The reason will be readily seen in her autobiography, Life's a Circus: Hotblooded Bathsheba is the perfect alibi for Lady Eleanor's Bohemian adventures, particularly her passionate interest in gypsies and circuses, already productive of two best-selling novels (Red Wagon, Flamenco...
...nine discovered George Borrow's Lavengro, the classic of gypsy life. Then & there she "knew perfectly well that Borrow's books had changed -forever - my life. . . ." Eventually she found what she was looking for - primitive, half-naked, arrogant gypsies in sultry caves near Almeria in Spain; nude flamenco dancers in the dives of Barcelona; tinkering tribes in the forest of Rumania; Andalusian gypsies who cured her fever with feverish music. But Lady Eleanor's stories of the gypsies are curiously impersonal and sketchy...