Word: gaspare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicaragua, Spanish Missionary Gaspar Garcia Laviana sat inspecting a clutch of automatic rifles last October and told a visitor why he had become a firearms expert with the guerrillas who are fighting the Somoza dynasty: "I tried to save the situation in a Christian manner, in the pacifist sense of social promotion, but I realized that all this was a big trick." Two months later, the Nicaraguan National Guard announced that Garcia had been slain in combat...
...PROPHETS, two identical saviors appear in a standing-room-only world of the future. The governing Regent, his assistant, the Bailiff, and Professors Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar conspire to kill off one of the Prophets so that the other can take over. But their plan miscarries, and both Prophets as well as all of the plotters except the Bailiff end up dead. As you may suspect, the parallel to the original Christ story is a little like a smack in the face. Dramatically, though, it's a better play than Repeat Performance: there is one very good chase scene...
Emile Couladon, Colonel "Gaspar", relatesnow customers will come into his store and claim to have been in the Resistance. As local head of the Resistance, Couladon knows they are deluding themselves, but what the hell, and challenging them would hurt business. Some of the citizens of Clermont-Ferrand said that they saw no Germans in their town in 1942. There were...
WHILE THE SORROW'S over-all portrait of the French is bleak, many people are worthy of respect. Some are heroes. Counter to the accepted wisdom, the film suggests that these are not great men, but those who knew they must do something and did. Colonel "Gaspar" explains that he didn't like the Germans eating French beef when he had none, Emmanuel D' Astier de la Vigerie merely that he had to do something, and the same with the Grave brothers. Denis Rake, an English secret agent, very simply states that as a homosexual he wanted to prove that...
Brown had been undefeated, ranked second in New England and seventh in the nation, until Gary Gaspar scored on a penalty kick after a one-on-one break with a long lead pass, and the 11-man Dartmouth defense proved too much for Brown...