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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Could Have Been | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong Li in a breezy patch of matted sorghum stalks, then gets drunk and boisterously brags about it. When Gong Li slams a door on him, Jiang's face transforms from posturing conquistador to ashamed fool. "He looks tough outside," says Zhao, "but inside, there is something softer, something more like a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in Action | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...since New Mexico was part of Spain. She delved into archdiocesan records, statistical abstracts and old Spanish histories at the Denver Public Library. On a monthly pension of $400, she sold most of her furniture so she could publish her findings: 22 volumes documented back to the arrival of conquistador Don Juan Onate in 1598. It is now a valuable resource for Hispanic genealogists. "I spent the past seven years looking," she says, "and I found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...people must be convinced that it is right to act according to certain values. "The Pope," says Navarro-Valls, "is not interested in beating people into submission but in showing them and convincing them this makes sense." John Paul II, says a papal aide, "won't come as a conquistador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash Of Faiths | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...then go downstairs, and like some Spanish conquistador, I lay claim to one of the Power Macintoshes...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Crime Night | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

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