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...ominous musical background of Spanish guitars. The story concerns two brothers of a proud Mexican family-one an eager young beginner in the bull ring, the other a has-been turned thug and procurer. A victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring. "It has flavor . . . depth and feeling," wrote the Times'?, Brooks Atkinson. "Mr. Stevens has real talent for theater writing, being well aware of the fact that...
...experimental, nothing that would offend good taste. Fisher hung his first exhibit in the governor's office in January 1951, has put in a new set of pictures about every three or four months since. The current show includes work by New Mexico's well-known Peter Kurd, who contributed Ranch near Encino, a typical vast, sweeping Kurd landscape. But it also has works by less famed painters, and in some of their pictures New Mexico comes to life with surprising sharpness. Among the standouts: Ernest Blumenschein's Downtown Albuquerque, a view of rooftops and buildings from...
...trained forces of North Korea were poised to jump across the 38th parallel, there was a similar force in the Russian part of Kurdistan, ready to jump, too. It was Russian-trained and Russian-equipped. But it wasn't Russian. It was entirely Kurdish and led by a Kurd, Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (teacher of Islam) whom the Russians turned into a general...
...several legacies, including General Barzani, who had headed the puppet state's army and managed to fight his way back to Russia. I asked a Kurdish officer serving in the Iraq army what would happen if Barzani's men came down across the border, calling on the Kurds to arise and unite. He answered: "Any Kurd-and I am proud to call myself one-would have a hard time resisting such a temptation. I am afraid Mullah Mustafa would be joined by many...
...used to think good of the Americans," a Kurd told me, "and we still hope they will be our friends. Financial aid would be all right, but it is not enough. You must send us advisers who can help us with education and technical things. The people consider America a useful country. They think the Americans have helped other countries and may some day help them. But the Americans have promised help many times. I think the people now feel the Americans don't stand by their promises. I think perhaps the Americans don't care...