Word: tequilas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Tequila. So The Brave Bulls, Lea's first novel, is a war book of a kind that most critics forgot to expect. The Brave Bulls has nothing, ostensibly, to do with the war, but the sand of the bull ring in this book is also the sand of the Peleliu beaches; the black and powerful truth that fills the book is the truth of death that marines learned on Peleliu's Bloody Nose Ridge...
...number of things might have changed the course of the corrida at Cuenca on Saint Barbara's Day. For example, if Eladio Gomez, tight-fisted impresario of the little Mexican bull ring, had not taken a second tequila one morning he might never have signed up Luis Bello, the famous and expensive matador. If Matador...
...general got up, crossed the lobby to the cigar stand, bought four of his favorite cigars. As he turned from the stand, he brushed against one Jesús Arias, police chief from the tiny Michoacán town of Vista Hermosa, who was a little the worse for tequila. General Alva's dark green felt hat fell to the floor...
Diego Rivera's new mural in a Mexico City hotel had stirred up a tequila tempest: the Archbishop refused to bless the hotel because the mural in the dining room contained the words "God does not exist" (TIME, June 14). Last week the ideological brew boiled over, and some of it spilled on the painting...
...Tequila & Sparklers. On Christmas Eve, after eight days of posadas, Mexico has its biggest feast of the year. Like the posada, this follows tradition. There is the Christmas salad-oranges, peanuts, lemons, beets, apples, almonds, and anything else at hand-which the father of the family always makes. Tequila is on the table, and in more prosperous homes wine and sometimes champagne. There are sparklers, like the ones in the U.S. on the Fourth of July. Not even the children go to bed, for in Mexico on Christmas Eve nobody sleeps...