Gilliamismos

Luego de 5 años de investigación, 14 chilenos acusados de conformar una asociación ilícita terrorista eran detenidos. Ocho meses después, el 75% de las pruebas presentadas sería rechazadas por el juez.

This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions. The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of...

La señorita de Trévelez es la obra maestra de Carlos Arniches. Estrenada en Madrid en 1.916, es una comedia romántica con tintes de melodrama. Se desarrolla en una capital de provincias, y narra, con un estilo inconfundible, el desamor de Florita Trévelez, soltera de cierta edad, cursi y poco agraciada físicamente, víctima de una broma de mal gusto. Maquinan y ponen en marcha dicha broma los miembros del autodenominado Guasa-Club, un grupo de amigos asiduos al casino, haciendo creer que uno de los protagonistas, Numeriano Galán, está perdidamente enamorado de ella. Carlos Arniches...

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...