Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...image: the cowboy, or the oilman, say. Geographically, climatically, economically, sociologically, Texas is at least five different entities: 1) east Texas, with its piney woods and swamps and large black population, a territory like the Old South; 2) south Texas, with its enormous Hispanic population, a borderland as much Mexican as American; 3) West Texas, arid ranching and oil country with huge vistas and forbidding distances; 4) the Panhandle, high plains farming country like the Midwest; 5) central Texas, the hill country, physically the loveliest part of the state, its roads in springtime bordered with bright wildflowers...
...Government had a star witness, Jesus Cruz, a Mexican, and it relied heavily upon his 23 days of testimony. An admitted smuggler of farm workers, Cruz was paid $21,000, in part to infiltrate church meetings and obtain evidence against the Sanctuary workers with a hidden tape recorder. To make the arrests easier, Cruz even asked his Bible-study partners for their addresses, on the pretext of sending them Christmas cards...
FOOTNOTE: * The others: two Roman Catholic priests, the Rev. Anthony Clark and the Rev. Ramon Dagoberto Quinones, a Mexican; Sister Darlene Nicgorski; and four lay church workers...
...sleeper in the Republican primary is Mike Antonovich, 46, a Los Angeles County supervisor who has toiled long and loyally in the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and California's popular Republican Governor George Deukmejian. Antonovich has some novel ideas (illegal Mexican immigrants should be stopped at the border by armed U.S. soldiers; gay men should combat the AIDS epidemic by going straight). He also has a habit of answering specific questions with tiresome civics lessons that begin, "Under our Constitution, there are three branches of Government...
Obviously Stallion's Gate is not meant to be taken too literally. There is a touch of the folk hero about Pena as he moves across the New Mexican landscape. A conscious stylist, Smith relies strongly on emotional echoes and calibrated suspense. He also seems keenly aware of his story's film potential. No producer will be confused by the tense hunting scene, the Indian dance that mocks the white man's efforts to saddle atomic energy, the Rocky-like prizefight that pits Pena against a younger opponent, an eerie trip with a radioactive cargo, and a climactic battle...