Word: lorca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buster Keaton's comic mask was nearly indistinguishable from the one most actors don for tragedy. To have seen a Keaton film is to remember his thin, straight mouth, its corners barely holding their own against gravity. The eyes are equally memorable; Spanish Poet Federico García Lorca described them as "sad infinite eyes, like those of a newborn beast of burden." No matter what madness swirled around them, they remained wells of loneliness in the pale landscape of Keaton's face...
...early love poetry had pioneered the use of personal imagery and surrealistic language, but after the Spanish Civil War and the death of his friend Lorca, Aleixandre shifted towards universal concerns, Marichal said...
...Civil War, which began with The Little Spanish Prison, 1941-44, and continued through the famous series of Spanish Elegies, with their black tragic shapes on a white ground. is essentially a cultural matter. He spoke little Spanish, had no firsthand knowledge of Spain, but had been ravished by Lorca's poetry. Barbaric in closeup...
Since Franco's death, Madrid has sprouted two combative new dailies, El Pais and Diario 16, and a host of snappy magazines like Interviu and Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
...Proposal, a sexually explicit tale of an amoral senorita who accidentally kills her lover out of erotic ardor. But Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris has yet to be shown, and a poet was recently fined $2,700 for reading in public a work by Garcia Lorca available in most bookstores...