Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jazzy organ and travels by hearse with his harum-scarum pharaohs, who sing falsetto or blow the sax. Wooly Bully is their runaway hit, but there are other lightheaded numbers like Gangster of Love and a Latin piece by Sam called Juimonos (meaning "Let's Went" in slangy Spanish...
Mexico is itself a living museum. From 5,000 years ago until the Spanish conquest, its civilizations recognized their gods in the volcanoes and valleys that made their world a temple. To bring the gods closer, the Aztecs carved idols such as the rain god Tlaloc, whose 168-ton bulk now looms outside Mexico City's new National Museum of Anthropology (see color pages). The building itself reflects the autochthonous architecture of Mexico's landscape; it, too, is a living temple...
...PAWNBROKER. As an anguished old Jew caught between the remembered horrors of Nazi Germany and the deadly grind of life in Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger illuminates one of the year's grimmest films with one of the year's grandest performances...
From a vantage point with a view atop suburban Pacific Palisades, Donohue's $100,000 Spanish-style house had picked itself up and headed toward Sunset Boulevard, 300 ft. down. It was a total loss. Also carried away in the hillside slide were a neighbor's $100,000 clifftop mansion, a psychiatrist's $75,000 eyrie, and about half of a $1,000,000, three-year-old apartment complex below them. One of the few residents who refused to evacuate the area was Mrs. Clara Bartlett-she lost only the patio of her $150,000 home...
...place is Flushing Meadow, Long Island. There, in the Spanish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Manuela Vargas and her first-rate 16-member flamenco troupe hold forth four times a day. The raw, unbridled passion of their performance tops the fair's entertainment bill. Haughty as a peacock, La Vargas commands with a scowl that would intimidate a bandit. What she doesn't convey with her Goyaesque good looks, arching back and rippling feet, she says with her long serpentine arms and spidery hands...