Word: miguel
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Seven years in prison, including a spell at New York's Sing Sing for armed robbery, inspired Miguel Pinero, 27, to become Broadway's first Puerto Rican playwright. For writing Short Eyes (TIME, April 8), based on his experiences behind bars, Pinero walked away with this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the best American play. Last week, however, it seemed that Pinero might be germinating a new plot. Approaching a subway token booth in a downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted...
...progressed from parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar; in two years at Auburn, he added bass and theory, and at Sing Sing, trumpet. Miguel Piñero, 27, is playwright-in-residence and author of most of Straight from the Ghetto and of Short Eyes. Ghetto street child, ex-burglar, and drug addict, Piñero began writing plays while in Sing Sing for armed robbery...
...majority of Cambridge's Portuguese arrive from the Azores, particularly the two easternmost islands, Sao Miguel and Santa Maria. By American standards, the Azorean economy is industrially backward and economically depressed with most of the inhabitants engaged in maritime and agricultural work...
Paris-Match called it "the photo that scandalizes Spain." Italian Actress Lucia Bosé was posed with Son Miguel Dominguin in a picture cropped below bare shoulders that showed them soulfully embracing. The picture allegedly came from Spanish Director Fernando Rey's unfinished movie Truth, in which the pair were said to play an incestuous mother and son. Lucia was quoted as saying "I believe Miguel will be even more irresistible than Luis," referring to her husband, Luis Miguel Dominguín, one of Spain's greatest bullfighters. However, it turned out that the most scandalized person...
...other cities. But the four Basque provinces of Spain (Vizcaya, Álava, Guipúzcoa and Navarra) are among the country's richest. Through the centuries many Basques have gone out into the world and achieved greatness. Among them: St. Francis Xavier and St. Ignatius of Loyola, Philosopher Miguel Unamuno and South American Revolutionary Hero...