Word: fiesta
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...Fiesta (MGM) is tacked together out of Technicolor, leftover story formulas and shopworn lace, to shelter three possible excuses for a picture: music, dancing and bullfighting. The bullring sequences get along without picadors or coups de grace, and apparently the same old company bull is photographed again & again. More stirring is Johnny (Body & Soul) Green's rearrangement of Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico. Bits of the dancing (by Mexican Star Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse) are more tense and percussive than the brand generally seen north of the border...
...Costa Rican Coffee Planter J. Carrol Naish, is slated to marry 100% Costa Rican Cesar Romero. But Romero wants to marry American Comedienne Celeste Holm, and Vera-Ellen falls for Romero's American friend, Dick Haymes. All of this becomes involved enough to last for nearly two fiesta-flurried hours because the young people are slow about telling their parents-and each other-the bad news...
...picture is set in Paris a hundred years ago. A number of strangers in a fiesta crowd are thrown together by fate. Years later, all changed by love and frustration, they are again lost to each other in the crowd. That is the end. Centering around one of the most fascinating theaters ever seen on the screen, the story runs all the way from light-hearted love-making to a Pagliacchio-like tragedy that is dramatic without being farcical...
...civic fiesta, a flight over the four-year-old volcano Paricutin, and lunch among the pyramids of Teotihuacán were not all the Mexicans had programmed for Harry Truman's three-day visit. They also had some problems they wanted to discuss...
...tidy little mountain capital of San José it was fiesta time. The coffee had been harvested, the price was good, and everybody had some money. Thousands of ticos (Costa Ricans) jammed the broad green of the capital's Plaza Gonzáles Viquez for the annual four-day "Civic Festival...