Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tourists ever stray very far south of the California border into the long, desertlike Mexican peninsula called Baja California. Below Tijuana, where the Mexican fleshpots generally attract only servicemen, there is scarcely anything to see save for a scattering of native villages and trails. And yet, along the southernmost 100 miles of Baja, between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas (see map), is the best game-fishing ground in the hemisphere-perhaps, as some fishermen claim, in the whole world...
...precision slits a woman's eyeball. From that frame forward, Moviemaker Bunuel left no doubt in anybody's mind that he intends to open people's eyes. In his masterpiece, Los Olmdados (1950), he opened people's eyes to the horrors of poverty in the Mexican slums. In Viridiana, a strange but powerful film that contains one episode of Goyesque genius, he attempts to open people's eyes to the evils of sentimental piety and morbid tyranny in Franco's Spain...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four people who have come to the frayed rope end of life find the strength to go on. In its acceptance of human limitations, this is Williams' wisest play. As drama, it is his best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four people who have come to the frayed rope-end of life find the strength to go on. In its acceptance of human limitations, this is Williams' wisest play. As drama, it is possibly his best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Calculating Thing," it turns out that Ada Trimball's mother once slept with Ada's prospective beau to win him away from "a little chippy" for her daughter. (It didn't work.) In "In a Grove," Richard Warner goads an old enemy, William Grant, into sleeping with his new Mexican bride after lots of dirty talk, and then drills them both...