Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 5 ft. tall and she weighs just 901bs., but Spain's ponderous judiciary moved to confront her with all the caution of a broken-horned bull facing a top-ranking torero. She was, after all, the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, three times a grandee of Spain, and she had proved herself a troublesome opponent in the past. In 1967, she was arrested for her role in organizing a farmers' protest march to demand additional U.S. compensation for damages suffered when three U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally fell near Palomares. This time, the problem centered on an explosive novel...
...duchess's difficulties began in January 1967, when a Paris publishing house brought out a Spanish-language edition of The Strike. Almost immediately, copies of the book were bootlegged into Spain, and it quickly became a cause célèbre on many social levels. The duchess's restaurant meals were constantly interrupted by waiters who had read the book and simply wanted to shake her hand. The book was avidly read in her home region of Andalusia, where the novel is set. There she is respected not only as a horse woman but for her deep...
...always performed a valuable service in offering certain films that were either too flawed or too offbeat for commercial distribution. The program directors' taste in revivals remains impeccable. Jean Renoir's Toni, made in 1934, is a gentle, loving tribute to the peasants of pre-Civil War Spain. The uncut version of Max Ophuls' Lola Montes (1955), never commercially released in the U.S., is one of the most sumptuous romances ever filmed. Among the other festival highlights...
...according to Ruth K. Porritt, Hilles librarian, it's already too late. "We took up the carpeting on August 9, after the summer school program," Miss Porritt said yesterday. "The tiling was ordered in mid-August from Spain, and should be here in a week or two," she added...
With a hint of exuberance he tells of his role in the 1895 war of independence against Spain. Fighting first under opportunistic bandits and later as a regular led by patriots, he boasts of pitched battles in which Negro machetes dropped Spanish heads like coconuts under the palms...