Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short of another fight. In September, after a bloody skirmish, a constitutional-minded faction of the military, headed by General Juan Carlos Ongania, 48, a sensible professional soldier, took power and promised to hold elections in June-even let the Peronistas campaign. The puppet government of President José Maria Guido set out to form a "National Front" that would wed Frondizi's old Intransigent Radical Party (with 18% of the popular vote), the Peronistas (more than 30%), and the Christian Democrats (5%). But alas, as the promised elections drew ever closer, anti-Peronista jitters set in again...
...past few months and is now as good as many professional bands. Their first set was their best: four tunes, all of them good, all of them played slickly and excitingly. Their closing session--two songs from West Side Story--wasn't bad, but those Johnny Richards arrangements, especially Maria, are a little too much for the band at this point. A jazz ballet by Ciji Ware and Dean Stolber, accompanied by Berger's band, closed the concert. The dancing was competent enough, but the choreography was no great shakes, and the performance was much too short for the dancers...
...another matter. 10:30 is a murky book, but in its anti-worldly way it seems to be saying that the two groups of people-the three travelers on the one hand, the murderer and his two victims on the other-are equally inadequate and equally doomed. Both Maria and Pierre admire the murderer for the reckless fury of his act ("We could have arranged a good life for him," says Maria, "and perhaps I would have loved him"), but he lies dead in a field. Maria and Pierre want to love one another, but their torpor is as fatal...
...husband and wife, Pierre and Maria, are driving through Spain to Madrid, accompanied by a young girl, Claire, who is not yet Pierre's mistress but who plainly will be as soon as they can slip off to a hotel room. A violent thunderstorm forces them to stop for the night in a small town 150 miles short of Madrid. There they learn that a double murder has been committed; a young husband has found his wife in bed with another man and in accordance with the local code of honor has shot them both...
...that evening Maria, standing on a hotel balcony, sees her husband kiss Claire on another balcony and almost simultaneously spots the murderer crouched on a nearby roof. She gets the car out and smuggles the murderer out of town past the patrolling police. A few hours later, she takes Pierre and Claire back to the field where she had left him only to find he has committed suicide. Saddened that they were unable to save him, they drive on to Madrid...