Word: romero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile pilgrimage to Mexico's greatest shrine. They were well-dressed businessmen, overalled city workers, shoeshine boys, campesinos, Indians from the high sierra. Behind the man with the eggs, Santiago Sánchez walked with arms outstretched, like Christ's on the cross. Indalecio Gómez Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being drunk in a cantina when...
...shots were made in Maine, and are much better than average to look at; but for some strange reason the crisp camera work is steeped in sepia so rich that the whole world looks like strong tea. There is competent character acting by Anne Revere, Ed Begley and Cesar Romero...
...backland freight, causes many of its automobile accidents, adorns its literature and enriches its profanity, supplied the theme for the song leading Mexico's hit parade. It was called My Little Burro Doesn't Want to Go, and it was written by a young man named Ventura Romero who had never ridden a burro in his life...
Captain from Castile (20th Century-Fox] is a big, bright-colored packaging of Samuel Shellabarger's best-selling historical novel about the era of Cortes. Tyrone Power keeps a medium-tight rein on his passionate Spanish nature; Lee J. Cobb is a boozer who likes disguises; Cesar Romero-a rather thin Stout Cortes-wears a rich black beard. Newcomer Jean Peters plays a pretty, vacuous runaway barmaid who is described, enthusiastically, as "a wench for the New World." Thomas Gomez, in priestly robes, puts forward a few ill-chosen words in favor of the conquest of Mexico (something...
...cause of the revolt was a very personal matter. Romero, a scapegrace distinguished by the possession of eleven fingers (double thumb on the left hand), had been sentenced to a 16-year prison term on a charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will...