Vaca

Reduced to the barest existence, hardships that defy belief, a diet of powdered straw at best - colleagues at worst (or perhaps that should be the other way round?) and inexorably separated from "the thoughts that clothe the soul of the European", Cabeza de Vaca is stripped and reclothed eloquently at the pen of Haniel Long into a man who sees that to relinquish individual responsibility is to lose one's humanity

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Reduced to the barest existence, hardships that defy belief, a diet of powdered straw at best - colleagues at worst (or perhaps that should be the other way round?) and inexorably separated from "the thoughts that clothe the soul of the European", Cabeza de Vaca is stripped and reclothed eloquently at the pen of Haniel Long into a man who sees that to relinquish individual responsibility is to lose one's humanity

The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca 2007

Reduced to the barest existence, hardships that defy belief, a diet of powdered straw at best - colleagues at worst (or perhaps that should be the other way round?) and inexorably separated from "the thoughts that clothe the soul of the European", Cabeza de Vaca is stripped and reclothed eloquently at the pen of Haniel Long into a man who sees that to relinquish individual responsibility is to lose one's humanity

The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca 2007

Regard, Roslyn Dawson Thompson and Nina Vaca will be the 2009 recipients of the Maura Medallion.

2009 Maura Women Helping Women Awards recipients announced today at luncheon Haley Curry 2009

Regard, Roslyn Dawson Thompson and Nina Vaca will be the 2009 recipients of the Maura Medallion.

Archive 2009-03-01 Alyssa Gardina 2009

YPF said the new estimate of shale oil and gas was based on work done by Ryder Scott , a Houston-based reservoir evaluation firm, which audited the company's fields in an area known as Vaca Muerta in the province of Neuquen.

Argentina's YPF Boosts Shale-Oil Estimate Taos Turner 2012

(Soundbite of song "Vaca") VITALE: And it ends with excerpts from European classical composer Gyorgy Ligeti's "Hungarian Rock."

Guillermo Klein And His Band Of Devotees 2008

(Soundbite of song "Vaca") Mr. BEN RATLIFF (Jazz Critic, The New York Times): There is a certain sense in his music of, like, oh, yeah, of course, you know?

Guillermo Klein And His Band Of Devotees 2008

TOM VITALE: Guillermo Klein's composition "Vaca" is typical of the music played by Los Guachos.

Guillermo Klein And His Band Of Devotees 2008

In "Vaca," the composer and his cohorts in Los Guachos do little to protect the purity of essence.

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