Word: mexicanitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three Mexican painters who for 25 years led Mexico in its great painting renaissance, Diego Rivera, 68, is now in Moscow to check up on suspected cancer, and unctuously expressing his hope of painting like the trite Soviet real ists. Firebrand David Siqueiros, 56, just back himself from a Moscow pilgrimage with a com mission to do the "world's largest mural" (4,500 sq. ft.) for the new Warsaw sports stadium, de lights in ridiculing contemporary Mexican art ists, including fellow Party Member Rivera. With the passage of time it seems that the least political and most impassioned...
...Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology explained that 18 professors and instructors from his department are taking part in the meeting at Boston's Sheraton-Plaza Hotel...
With intrigue and intensity, Viva Zapata retells the parable-like story of the Mexican peasants' struggle against a tyrannical government in the early years of this country. Given this plot, the film might have emerged as either a wild, bloodletting Western or a saccharine treatment of patriotic bugaboo. But John Steinbeck carefully avoided both in a script that director Elia Kazan has bandled with magic. His art is obvious in the charactarization of Zapata, heroically played by Marlon Brando...
...possible objection to Viva Zapata is the apparent disorganization of plot. There are any number of places where the conclusion might logically follow. But viewed as an episodic adventure of the Mexican leader, Viva Zapata is a modern legend tied together with touches of action, humor, and, most important, Marlon Brando...
...famous possession in which California takes no particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San Francisco, and out to sea. When the fault slips, it causes a major earthquake. Last week Seismologist Charles F. Richter of Caltech outraged chambers of commerce by warning that the San Andreas Fault has been gathering pressure for a major bust-loose...