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...ancient system working smoothly. The alcades, traditional religious leaders of the community, stage midnight raids on all houses and cornfields where they suspect that unmarried couples are sleeping. These couples are apprehended and married, by force if necessary, the following Sunday in a mass Church ceremony. Some enterprising youths flee to the mountains during the ronda season, but those that are caught must marry...
...Madison's War" that there was open talk of secession. Madison had no control over Congress, tolerated incompetent subordinates in his Cabinet. A whispering campaign was launched suggesting that he was impotent and that Dolley was unfaithful. Worst of all, Madison suffered the humiliation of having to flee Washington before a British army, which casually put the torch to the White House. At war's end, Madison did not win a single major concession from the British in the settlement...
...next love, appear. There are some cityscapes, bright as a patchwork quilt, and later a series on one of Picasso's favorite themes, the Minotaur. This time, the artist was thinking of a legend in which three muses come upon the Minotaur dying on a beach. Two flee at the sight of his ugliness, but one stays to nurse him back to health. "Forever thereafter, while she floated offshore, he spent his days sitting where she had offered the only love he had found in life...
KENMORE: TWO WOMEN, a film version of Alberto Moravia's novel about a mother and daughter who flee to the mountains during the Italian campaign of World War II and return too soon to the city. Sophia Loren acts (well), DeSica directs...
...large extent, today's assemblers seem really to be using yesterday's revolution to stage a counterrevolution of their own. As Seitz puts it: "They once more demonstrate the necessity for artists to flee the current circle of approval while seeking recognition on,another level, to return again from abstraction to nature, to work with the materials of life rather than...