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...Viva Zapafa! (20th Century-Fox) is a delayed cinematic footnote to MGM's slambang Viva Villa (1934), in which Wallace Beery sweatily portrayed Mexico's bandit patriot. Villa's revolutionary ally to the south in the bloody 1911-19 uprisings was fiery Emiliano Zapata, nicknamed "the Tiger...
...Viva Zapata! makes the Tiger out to be a pretty tame cat. According to history, Zapata was not only a great folk hero and agrarian emancipator, but also a cruel, cunning Guerrero Indian whose notorious Death Legion made human torches of the enemy and staked living men to anthills...
...crest of the controversy, Surrealist Dali bounced into Madrid with a prepared lecture on "Picasso and I." Crowds greeted him with shouts of "Viva Picasso!" Spoke Dali: "There is no difference between Picasso and myself as men. We are both painters, both Spaniards, both geniuses...
...daily auto rides, noted that he always slowed down at the school corner on the edge of town just before turning into the highway. They rented an old house across from the school. They paid a pumpkinseed vendor to stand beside a tree at the turn and shout "Viva Villa!"-once if the general rode in the front seat, twice if he rode in back...
...Murderer." On the morning of July 20, 1923, Villa was at the wheel of the Overland, joking with his pals and puffing on a corn-shuck cigarette as he drove up to the school corner. The pumpkinseed vendor lurched toward the road, shouted: "Viva Villa!" As the general raised a hand to salute, a ragged volley of rifle bullets riddled his fat body. He and one aide died instantly...