Word: cantinas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heroine of his picture (Betsy Blair, who also played the plain girl in Marty) is "a real scarecrow," according to the village bucks who drink away the afternoon at the cantina and fool away the night at the burdel. Worse still, she is not even rich. One day, mostly for want of anything better to do. they decide to play a practical joke. One of them is assigned to make love to her, propose to her, and at the very last minute, maybe just before the wedding, tell...
Last week 14 brand-new recordings began spinning on Italy's phonographs. Made by such top performers as the two Fasanos, a blonde-brunette sister team, and Singer Carla Boni and the Angelini Orchestra, the tunes were the kind that might be danced to in any cantina, whistled by any office boy. But the lyrics were different. Sang the Fasano sisters to a one-step that sounded something like The Donkey Serenade...
...tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds his way to a corner cantina. "Do we make a deal?" he asks the barkeeper. "Why not?" says the barkeep, and pours out a liter of pulque. Wiping the milky froth from his lips, the organ grinder then reels off three numbers that have the hod carriers at the bar singing at the tops of their...
...Buzzards. With smoke still pluming into a clear sky, bandits not busy looting or loading lined up in the plaza to drink aguardiente from the local cantina. They hauled the little harmonium out of the church, tried to play it, failed, and smashed it with rifle butts. Then they found a phonograph. It provided music for a wild dance in the plaza's basketball court. Edelmira did not dance, and under her eye the bandits dared not seek village women for partners. So the men danced together, one cavorting wildly in a cassock he found in the priest...