Word: cortez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rough stuff fool you--rugby is very much a thinking man's game. Although tackling without pads might make you think that the brute force of a Cortez Kennedy rules the sport, the smarts and athleticism of the Joe Montanas are really more dominant...
...even Truettner pushes too far. For instance, he sees Emanuel Leutze's The Storming of the Teocalli by Cortez and His Troops, 1848, as a celebration of Christian virtue conquering Aztec barbarism. But the image is far more melancholy and ambiguous than that: the Spanish conquistadors are presented as brutes, one flinging a baby from the temple top, another tearing loot from a corpse; and Leutze's intent to provoke pity for the Aztecs is summed up in an upside-down torch, nearly out, which lies on the steps in the foreground, an adaptation of the classic funerary image...