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Word: yolande (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothel, was soon steeped in the smoky atmosphere of the dives of the Barrio de San Miguel-Mexico's Montmartre. The secrets the girls told him in idle hours he phrased in songs. One night, as he broke off playing his new song Rosa, a buxom beauty named Yoland pulled a knife from her garter, slashed his face from mouth to ear, then knelt at his feet shrieking for forgiveness. Soon after, Lara wrote Woman ("You have in your look the passion that fascinates"), a smash hit that lifted him from the brothels to the best bistros of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lovers' Lamenter | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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