Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great Lotte Lenya has lowered herself to appear as Rosa Klebb, the lesbian SPECTRE spymaster who starts the diabolical plan against Bond in motion. She's come a long way from Dreigroschenoper but still manages an effective performance. That Pedro Armendariz seems better as a Mexican revolutionary (his traditional role) than as Bond's Turkish sidekick is largely due to his limited versatility as an actor. Red Granitski, the homicidal fiend of the novel, has been tamed down to a cold war equivalent of a Murder, Inc., thug--the change makes him much more frightening. Unfortunately, the fellow selected...
Genuinely getting to know him comes harder, and therein lies the value of Oscar Lewis, 49, a University of Illinois anthropologist gifted with facile Spanish, a guileless face and a pleasantly disarming manner. Lewis' method is to insinuate himself into the bosom of a Mexican family and stay for months, becoming as much a household fixture as the tortilla griddle, as comfortable as a worn pair of huaraches. The pencil scribbles across the notebook pages; the recorder spools gently turn...
...more fully developed character than any single Sanchez child, more intricately related to his country's disheveled past and closer to its soil. Pedro's setting is "Azteca" (another pseudonym), an ancient farming village in the stony highlands about 60 miles south of Mexico City. Like most Mexican peasant children, he had a haphazard upbringing. His father died when he was three months old, after which his mother, "being just a girl, she got herself a boy" and went off with him. Pedro was raised off and on by an aunt, a grandmother, a godmother, an uncle...
...imaginative president, Felipe Herrera, 41, a Chilean economist, el BID has granted longterm, low-interest loans for hydroelectric power in such marginal-risk areas as Guatemala and Paraguay. About 35% of its loans are for agricultural projects, which often get a cool reception from international bankers. Last year the Mexican government received $30.5 million to reclaim and settle 130,000 desolate acres in the southeastern state of Tabasco, while Venezuela and the Dominican Republic got $6,000,000 apiece to build up cattle herds...
...discussing the role of the vote in the assault on segregation, the students quickly linked the goals of the southern freedom movement to those of labor and disamament. While talking of nonviolence in Mississippi, they spoke of the strikes and layoffs in Hazard, Ky., and the Mexican-American political victories in Crystal City, Texas...