Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quietly and alone, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines made the one vital decision every Mexican President must make before his term expires-who was to be his successor. Last week from the presidential mansion, Los Pinos, the word was out: Ruiz Cortines' blessing went to his hardworking Labor Minister, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 47, a moderate leftist who could be counted on to push ahead with Mexico's maturing democracy and its fast-developing free economy...
...Mexico searching for gold in the remotest hinterlands might be classified as picaresque and episodic, because it depends on external events and travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three men he presents us with are for the most part fully believable...
...ranging lone wolf of Mexican art, Painter Rufino Tamayo, his country's greatest modernist, has never hesitated to deliver outspoken blasts at Marxism. In Mexico's Red-dominated art world, this earned him some formidable foes; chief among them, naturalistic Muralist Diego Rivera. Just as they, clashed over politics, Communist Rivera and Tamayo, who wears no political label, disagreed about art: Tamayo shied away from Rivera's hard-lined propagandist works, and Rivera had no love for Tamayo's warm-toned semiabstractions. For 20 years the two artists have exchanged few kind words. Last week Tamayo...
Kerouac has taken the slightly less than original idea that life is like a road and given it an indisputably original twist by using a U. S. road map for most of the plot, and a Mexican map for the rest of it. Everything happens while the characters are physically on the move and nothing every happens when they stop. Outside of pure motion, there is no development of anything. Whenever some danger of a little drama through which personal relationships or just plain personalities might be explored develops, Kerouac drops the situation...
Naming no names, a Vatican City weekly, Osservatore della Domenica, blasted Italy's Cinemactress Sophia Loren and divorced Moviemaker Carlo Ponti, for their Mexican marriage by proxy last month. Because Ponti's first marriage still exists in the eyes of the church, said the newspaper, the pair are "public sinners," and if they live together in "pseudo-marriage," they are guilty of concubinage and liable to excommunication. Living together in a rented house in West Los Angeles, Sophia and her mate put their love before their religion. Said Actress Loren: "Everything I am today, I owe to Carlo...