Word: gitano
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Opening on a very minimal, shoddy-looking set (a white sheet with a painted Big Ben and a blue sky), we are introduced to Phileas Fogg (Colum Amory), the British explorer who one day decides to have his valet Gitano (Keith Barsky) pack his bags for a trip around the world. With the plot thus taken care of, we can get on with the music...
...reacted to the city in such an elemental way that the poetry which resulted--discordant, night-marish, nearly surrealistic--was utterly unlike anything he had written before. In fact, Lorca's Poet in New York was so different from his early Canciones or the gypsy ballads in Romancero Gitano that many scholars try to consider it outside and unrelated to the course of the poet's stylistic "development...
What made Lorca change from his popular combinations of the old romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that...
...bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter. He charged the chickens, butted the bucket, larked with the laundry; when the time for branding came, it took seven good men to catch...
...year-old, when the ranch held its tienta (test) for the young bulls, Gitano astounded the company with his fighting qualities: he knocked the picador's horse sprawling and gored one of the capemen. The boy was proud, but he was sad too. In two years Gitano would be sent to the corrida to be artistically butchered for the pleasure of the public...