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...band serenaded selected members of the audience with "Volver, Volver"," a song in which a man asks his beloved to "return, return...

Author: By Mohammed N. Khan, | Title: Cinco de Mayo Festivities Feature Dance, Song | 5/7/1993 | See Source »

...same be said for Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, the Soviet film that won the 1980 foreign Oscar? Or Volver a Empezar, the Spanish winner two years ago? Or for all the films nominated this year? The answer is no, and part of the problem is the Academy's cumbersome selection procedure that has evolved over the years--a procedure devised to be fair to the diversity of national cinemas. In recent years, 20 or more films have been submitted, one film to a country, chosen by indigenous committees of filmmakers, critics and bureaucrats; this year there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Handicapping the Foreign Oscar | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...weekends, downtown Los Angeles' Broadway is a teeming mass of Hispanic shoppers. Record-store loudspeakers blare Mexican hits: Juro que Nunca Volveré (I Swear I'll Never Return), Mi Fracaso (My Downfall). The Orpheum Theater, where Al Jolson once sang in blackface, screens Spanish-language dubbings of anglo hits. An archipelago of taco and burrito carts dots the street. Stores and merchandise stands tout their wares: vestidos, tocadiscos, muebles (clothing, phonographs, furniture). Farther east, on Whittier Boulevard, young Hispanics express themselves with a unique form of Saturday night fever known as "low riding"-cruising in ornately decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LOS ANGELES | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...paralyzed left arm still carried two re volver bullets, deposited there by unknown enemies who attacked him three months ago in a hotel bedroom (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Smooth Diamond | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...Francis Black, 66, Manhattan realty tycoon, board chairman of U. S. Realty & Improvement Co., a director of the Missouri, Kansas, Texas R. R., Savoy Plaza Corp., Bowman-Bilt-more Hotels Corp., National City Bank (Manhattan); in bed at his home near Huntington, L. I., by his own hand (re-volver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 28, 1930 | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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