Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three decades now, all moviegoers have lived in the fantasies that this man-child Latin lover embodies with such sweet vigor. Grazie, Marcello, whoever...
...SCHOOL Republican Club took extra special care last Friday to secure a forum for contra leader Adolfo Calero. The organization reserved 300 of the 350 available seats for conservative students--the rest going to the press and, oh yes, the public. Just 20 members of La Alianza, the Latin American Law School group, were allowed inside to hold signs in protest...
...tides of fashion as less holy men. Zurbaran's Caravaggian intensity started to drop out of favor after 1650. What the Spanish church wanted was the sweetness and emotional flexibility of Murillo, and Zurbaran had turned to producing devotional paintings by the score for the provincial market in Latin America. Some of the late madonnas in which he tried to rival Murillo's sentimental grace are sugary beyond belief, and the swarms of putti that infest them are among the ugliest in Spanish...
...because of these quirks, the film seems more to be drifting from scene to scene than progressing in any interesting fashion. Although some scenes, most notably one in which two Bulgarian men who communicate with the thiefs in Latin nearly foil the heist of some valuable paintings, are hilarious, others seem out of place...
...there can be no drowning out of the city's predominantly Latin beat. David Rieff, an editor at the New York City publishing house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the son of Critic Susan Sontag, is beguiled by old buildings that were inspired by fantasies of Moorish Spain and are now inhabited by cocaine cowboys from the Caribbean and South America. He forays among Cuban exiles and their U.S.-born children to talk to writers, artists, intellectuals and yuccas (young, up-and-coming Cuban Americans). He is impressed by their energy, ambition and sense of humor. Among the local jokes...