Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luminarias, of which we are very proud here in the Southwest. They are festive lights made, as you say, by sand-filled paper bags containing lighted candles. The tradition is that the luminarias guide the Christ Child to every home. The custom is Spanish, and it started when Spain had dominion over our Southwest. The use of luminarias at Christmastime is a custom followed all along the Rio Grande River, from Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, and also in Texas. Though it is not too important, I think that your readers would like...
...Samuel Bronston; Allied Artists). Don Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, Spain's greatest military genius, was born circa 1043 of noble yet obscure descent. Nevertheless, so extraordinary were Don Rodrigo's courage and character that at 28 he became commander in chief of the armies of Castile. Not for long. The able but treacherous King Alfonso VI, jealous of his vassal's victories and virtues, banished him. Undaunted, Don Rodrigo gathered an army of admirers, and off and on for 30 years beat back the Moslem armies. Though generally far outnumbered, he never lost a battle...
...paragon of chivalry and the mold of Spanish manhood. He became a legend in his lifetime, and some 40 years after his death in 1099 he was celebrated in El Poema de Mio Cid-a vast rambling rime that became the national epic-as the Lancelot of Spain and something more, as a sort of Round Table...
...Inevitably, the picture is colossal-it runs three hours and 15 minutes (including intermission), cost $6,200,000, employs an extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7,000 extras, 10,000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines of medieval war, and four of the noblest old castles in Spain: Ampudia, Belmonte, Peñiscola and Torrelobaton. Surprisingly, the picture is good-maybe not as good as Ben-Hur, but anyway better than any spectacle since Spartacus (TIME...
...code of chivalry to kill her father in defense of his own father's honor. Jimena. in turn, though she loves Rodrigo madly, is forced to seek revenge. So much for Corneille. From there out, Yordan collects vivid scraps of incident from the teeming, demi-mythological Matter of Spain, and patches together an opulent tapestry of medieval legend. In its final moment, the film rises to a vision of chilling weirdness as El Cid. strapped dead to his great white steed Babieca, looms above the field of his last dim battle and, scattering the heathen like smoke before...