Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congratulate you on your excellent article on la causa [July 4]. As volunteer workers in La Joya of the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, my wife and I discovered a very simple and beautiful people. It hurt to see them work so hard and receive and have so little. It hurt to see the ignorant prejudice against which they must struggle and the very poor living conditions of so many. As a nurse, my wife saw health problems we believed no longer existed...
...only comic equal in this production is Leland Moss, as the homosexual Rio Rita. Not content to play the stage queen (masculine) as a simple grotesque, Moss maintains some semblance of delicacy. If the way he kept jumping up and down in his seat is any indication, the flamer of a middle-aged fag who ended up in the seat next to me simply loved Rita--so I guess Moss also puts in a pretty credible performance. At any rate, he is the only actor on stage who manages to stay in character for the entire evening, which in this...
Wetback: illegal immigrant from Mexico, so called because a common means of entry was to swim the Rio Grande...
Thursday, June 12 THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). A band of starving Cheyennes man ages to escape from a reservation only to run into the U.S. Army in John Ford's beautiful Cheyenne Autumn (1964), with James Stewart, Dolores Del Rio, Richard Widmark, Arthur Kennedy and Carroll Baker...
...where the body can be found. (Rose was nicknamed after telling one reporter that he got "an almost sexual pleasure from seeing a .45 bullet in a riddled body, blood bursting from the wound like a red rose from the earth.") As a result of all the violence, the Rio gangsters have not surprisingly begun to fight back. They have already executed several cops in direct imitation of the death-squad style...