Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduction piles condition upon condition, the fear arises that his book will consist of blank pages. Instead, the anthology presents nearly 300 separate entries, the work of more than 120 poets. The only major writer to receive substantial space is Byron. Though it is preferable to read Don Juan whole, Amis' excerpts do underscore this long poem's consistent, sparkling hilarity. Byron on government bureaucrats is, unfortunately, still timely. Ask a neighbor, he advised...
Before Labor Contractor Juan Corona was convicted in 1973 for one of the greatest mass murders in memory-hacking and bludgeoning to death 25 itinerant farm workers around the sun-baked orchards of Yuba City. Calif.-his lawyer tried a stunning tactic. Defense Attorney Richard Hawk. 45. offered hardly any defense at all. Though he questioned a few of the 116 witnesses summoned by the prosecution, he called none himself and his summation lasted a bare seven minutes. In spite of that, the jury's first vote was 7 to 5 for acquittal, and it took a total...
When it is, Juan Corona, who remains in Soledad prison, will be represented by a new legal team...
...telephone contacts occured only a short time after Townley arrived in the U.S. with an official passport falsely identifying him as Juan Williams Rose. He entered the country with Armando Fernandez Larios, a Chilean army captain whose official passport identified him as Alejandro Romeral Jara...
...hilltop studio on the Spanish island of Majorca, he finishes one or two works a week and has also completed a tapestry for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. An especially exciting prospect is an upcoming retrospective exhibition in Madrid, to be opened by King Juan Carlos. It will mean that after 40 years of Franco, Miró will be officially recognized in Spain...