Word: lorca
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...poem keeps getting better as it progresses. It concludes irresistibly with the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca, reincarnated as a limping sparrow, pronouncing gloomily: “Literature will lose, sunlight will win, don’t worry...
...proud widow who attempts to keep her household from shame by oppressing her five rebellious daughters suggests sexual frustration and a deep disillusionment with men. These themes collide forcefully with the claustrophobia of small-town life in Spain at the turn of the century. Written by Federico Garcia Lorca and running in the Loeb Experimental Theater until April 22, the particulars of “Bernarda Alba” are not always perfect. Yet the show succeeds in presenting a drama that is both amusing and deeply tragic through a painfully up-close lens.In portraying women who must battle oppression...
...helped popularize flamenco, lacking Gypsy fire but more than compensating with power and elegance. The artistic director of the National Ballet of Spain, he also made 10 films that brought him an international audience, notably Blood Wedding, Spanish director Carlos Saura's vibrant dance version of the Garcia Lorca play. Gades was an ardent communist who spent several years in Cuba. Fidel Castro was the best man at his wedding...
...Museum of Modern Art is lavishing attention on the art of fashion photography with "Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990," an exhibition of the work of Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin, Tina Barney and Philip-Lorca diCorcia. For those who can't make it to New York City, a lush book (Distributed Art Publishers) will accompany the exhibition. April 16--June...
...fourteen years "Love and Rockets," one of the most influential comix series ever created, included Hernandez' tales of a fictional Mexican border town called Palomar. All these stories have now been collected into a 522-page book that combines the convoluted absurdity of a soft-core soap opera with Lorca's depth of character and Faulkner's sense of place...