Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until the horde had settled into a ravenous chant of "Franco! Franco! Franco! Franco!" did the Caudillo step onto the balcony. Dressed in a heavy gray overcoat, and looking all of his 78 years, he could hardly have found his reception disappointing. When the crowd saw Prince Juan Carlos, Spain's future king, at Franco's side, they shouted "Franco solo! Franco solo!" Paling visibly, the young prince quickly stepped back. "Spaniards!" croaked Francisco Franco in his high voice. "Thank you for this explosion of faith and enthusiasm, seconded by the people who believe in the destiny...
...attack; in Manhattan. His books were based on lengthy tape-recorded interviews that described as nothing else could people whose value system is almost totally a function of their poverty. Most controversial was La Vida, a shattering account of three generations of a family in the barrios of San Juan and New York, in which Lewis states his theory that poverty is an identifiable culture transcending national differences...
...singlehanded seaman's equivalent of the four-minute mile. In the improbable event that everything goes as he hopes it will, Chichester and his 57-ft. Gypsy Moth V will make Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, in 18 days, then cover the 4,000 miles of Atlantic to San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, in 20 days−an astonishing average of 200 singlehanded miles sailed every day. The 1968 transatlantic race was won at a daily average 109.8 miles. "To increase the speed to 200 miles a day for 20 days is a very big jump indeed, for which one would...
...Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some understanding and much enthusiasm) graduated to modern art via Cezanne, whose work he began to buy in 1904. Her second brother Michael concentrated on the paintings and bronzes of Henri Matisse. Gertrude herself liked Picasso and Juan Gris. "Americans can understand Spaniards," she wrote. "Cubism is a purely Spanish conception, and only Spaniards can be Cubists" -thus cheerfully disregarding Braque...
...Cubists' subject matter was drawn from the life they lived as virtually penniless men-in studios, on the street, or swigging a marc at some cafe. The packet of cigarette papers in a Braque, the jug in a Juan Gris or the boxy village houses hemmed by bulging trees that Leger painted in 1914 could be taken for granted as subjects; their anonymity not only connected them to ordinary life but also focused a viewer's attention on what was happening within a new language of painting...