Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rubinstein was scheduled to play only four concerts in Spain, but his hot-handed treatment of Spanish music so floored the audiences that he crisscrossed the country for 120 additional performances. He was feted and fawned over like a toreador. The Queen Mother, Maria Cristina, invited him to the palace for tea. King Alfonso XIII became an intimate. ("He was the most tone-deaf man I ever knew," says Rubinstein. "From the time he was seven, he was accompanied by a man assigned to nudge him whenever the national anthem was played.") His new success led to a tour...
...VIVA MARIA! Some camera magic by French Cinematographer Henri Decae helps Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot inflame the peasantry in Louis Malle's higgledy-piggledy farce about a pair of strip queens involved in a Central American revolution...
...step in the right direction, but both have been bogged down in ministries and parliamentary committees for more than three years, and there seems to be little hope that they will soon become law. Neither measure is all that radical. The religion bill, pushed by Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella to wipe away the image of religious intolerance that has hurt Spain since the Inquisition, would permit the nation's tiny non-Catholic minority (5,000 Jews and 30,000 Protestants) to build their own houses of worship-which, in practice, they are already doing. The press bill, drawn...
...children, he delights in kissing babies, is a stem-winding orator who always comes out strong on the side of social reform. - Fernando Maria Castiella, 58, Foreign Minister. Tall and scholarly, Castiella is a progressive Catholic and perhaps the Cabinet's most consistent defender of greater political freedom...
...VIVA MARIA! Photography by Henri Decae enhances the allure of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot, who do what they can with Director Louis (The Lovers) Malle's rather slapdash farce about a pair of dance-hall girls involved in a Central American revolution...