Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kilroy's captors brought bread and water, assuring him there was no danger. But twelve hours later he was abruptly led outside and executed with a machete slash to the back of his neck. The man who wielded the weapon, according to Mexican police, was the cult's ringleader, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, 26, a lanky, red-haired Cuban American who grew up in Miami. Constanzo, still being sought at week's end, inspired such fervent loyalty among his followers that he was known as El Padrino, the Godfather...
...Matamoros mortuary almost four days to complete the autopsies. Several victims remained unidentified, but at least one other young male may have been an American kidnaped from neighboring Brownsville, Texas. Besides Constanzo, authorities sought three other suspects, including the Godfather's companion, Sara Maria Aldrete, 24, a Mexican honor student at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville. Searching Aldrete's home in Matamoros, police found a blood-spattered altar and candles...
...Stealing Home. And here come two more films, both directed by their writers, that play games with baseball. David S. Ward's Major League is a rowdy, genially cynical comedy about jocks and Jills. Its fanciful Cleveland Indians team is a bunch of rejects from the Mexican, minor and California Penal leagues. Now coming to bat: the veteran catcher on his last legs (Tom Berenger), the Willie Mays wanna-be (Wesley Snipes), the pampered third baseman (Corbin Bernsen). And on the mound, a fastballer (Charlie Sheen) with control problems on and off the field. With this gang, in this comic...
...many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence can be detected in dozens of films. He even notes that the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has acknowledged that the structure of his book The Death of Artemio Cruz was lifted from Citizen Kane. But Brady is prudent about using the word genius, an encomium more freely handed out at Academy Award gatherings than at Nobel Prize ceremonies...
...President's unexpected moxie has led to a dramatic transformation in his image. Dismissed as a colorless technocrat, variously derided by his fellow Mexicans as "El Chaparro" (Shorty) and "El Pelon de las Orejas" (Baldy with Big Ears), Salinas, 41, was considered an unlikely presidential candidate even by many members of his own Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). When he was elected with 50.7% of the vote last July amid charges of ballot fraud, it became evident that the P.R.I., which has ruled Mexico for 60 years, had lost its grip on the country. By striking forcefully at targets like Felix...