In the 1980s, Telluride also became notorious in the drug counterculture for being a drop point for Mexican smugglers and a favorite place for wealthy importers to enjoy some downtime.

In 1977 Richard West of the Texas Monthly said " At this particular point in time no other Texas restaurant dictates the dining-out habits of so many of its city's inhabitants " and that the restaurant is " a favorite topic of conversation among Mexican food fanciers not just in Houston but all over the state.

Arce does not discriminate when it comes to joking about entertainers: Some of his favorite targets seem to include Mexican superstars such as María Félix, Luis Miguel and Irma Serrano, but he has also made jokes about Julio Sabala, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Marc Anthony, among others.

Rodríguez directed many major stars, including Pedro Infante, Dolores del Río, María Félix, and even Toshirō Mifune, the favorite actor of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, as a Mexican Indian in the film Ánimas Trujano ( 1961 ).

The corrido was, for example, a favorite device employed by the Teatro Campesino led by Luis Valdez in mobilizing largely Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers in California during the 1960s.

The Mexican versus Mexican-American rivalries also fall among boxing fans ' favorite rivalries.

During a career span of nearly two decades, Ana Barbara has won several industry awards, produced several records, become an occasional actress, and a music talent judge ; this has helped her maintain her autonomy and her status as a popular favorite within Regional Mexican music.

This was a favorite for gamblers and was quickly adopted by Mexican charros, together with the slim " Kentucky " style bowtie commonly seen on stereotypical Southern gentlemen like Colonel Sanders or Boss Hogg.

Accordingly, Dollfuss refused to reply, instead spending the night in his favorite church praying, returning in the morning for a bath and a spartan meal before replying to the President he would accept the offer.

While their devout teacher, Lehrer Lämpel, is busy at church, the boys invade his home and fill his favorite pipe with gunpowder.

He is buried in the crypt of St. Florian monastery church, right below his favorite organ.

One of his favorite tactics was to attack Christian cities on church feast days, knowing that many soldiers would be in church.

He was buried in the church of the Madonna dell ' Orto by the side of his favorite daughter Marietta, who had died in 1590 at the age of thirty.

Located on the ancient road from Kraków to Vilnius and on the edge of the Kozienice Forest, the town became one of favorite retreats of King Jogaila, who founded a church there in 1394.

Since the Middle Ages, this collegiate church has been a favorite resting place for Catholic pilgrims along the Way of St. James, since it is the first place to have a rest after crossing the French Pyrenees.

The anthem was later published, and remains a favorite of many church choirs.

One that should not be missed is the church of Aghios Nektarios, built in or about 1980 by father Nikiforos, the parochial priest of Lipsi at the time and a favorite baptistry for the inhabitants of the island.

The song was also a recurring favorite on Little House on the Prairie when the Ingalls family went to church.

He often recounted a favorite memory from his youth: one Sunday morning in church, as the collection plate was being passed, his father noticed a young Lytle dropping a quarter in.

Mac decides to spare his life, but as he is leaving the church, the priest takes aim with a Luger but is then shot and killed by Mac, who is holding Deuce's favorite revolver.

All investigations of causality coming later in history will consist in imposing a favorite hierarchy on the order ( priority ) of causes ; such as " final > efficient > material > formal " ( Thomas Aquinas ), or in restricting all causality to the material and efficient causes or, to the efficient causality ( deterministic or chance ), or just to regular sequences and correlations of natural phenomena ( the natural sciences describing how things happen rather than asking why they happen ).

Mama knew she was playing her son's favorite pieces and feeling close to him, and did not disturb her.

The favorite guest of the house, as far as the staff was concerned, was Mr. Wrigley, the chewing gum king.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

This he claimed was the favorite refrain of the English.

Karl played well and his favorite song was a Schubert lullaby.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Whatever was the science in the high school course for the time being, that was my favorite study.

And when the stranger found out that Phil was on the way to one of his favorite bars, he insisted on offering to buy drinks for both of them.

This favorite grievance was not the landlord.

Handsome bachelor Charley was a favorite date of many of Hollywood's glamor gals for years.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

de Pompadour's favorite artist and was commissioned by her for numerous paintings and decorations.

At the time of the movie's release, however, author J. K. Rowling said that it was her personal favorite from the series so far.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.

He was a favorite of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied in his Persian campaigns, and wrote a third historical work on Alexander.

By 473 BC, after the death of Phrynichus, one of his chief rivals, Aeschylus was the yearly favorite in the Dionysia, winning first prize in nearly every competition.

"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.

Subjects were frequently revisited: one of his favorite models was his younger brother Diego Giacometti.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).