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...La nuestra (“Ours”) they call it, a horizontal, slow game that goes back to the great San Lorenzo club sides of the 1940s (and is still revered by Argentine Pope Francis)....
...“I fell in love with the town because I thought it had incredible bones,” explains Argentine chef Francis Mallmann, who is often credited with kick-starting Garzón’s revival....
...After Miami mayor Francis Suarez declared he was taking his salary in bitcoin, incoming New York mayor Eric Adams tweeted, “I’m going to take my first THREE paychecks in Bitcoin.”...
...Artists whose work sold to lone bids included Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Christopher Wool and even social media sensation KAWS....
...Crucial referendum Although world leaders from Pope Francis to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, enthusiastically support the accord, the majority of Colombians must first approve it in a referendum...
...Mr Martinez is the secretary-general of the French union Confédération Générale du Travail....
...Francis Duseux, head of UFIP, the group overseeing France’s petroleum industry, said: “Every day we use the equivalent of about one day of consumption....
...I had to wait seven years for a Francis Alÿs piece [from David Zwirner gallery]. It was really hard for me....
...The final tally for its evening sale, $691m, made it the highest-grossing auction ever, and the star lot, Francis Bacon’s 1969 triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, soared to $142.2m, shattering its...
...Selections by Vanessa Friedman … Junot Díaz, Author of ‘This is How You Lose Her’ (Faber) The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year was Oscar Martínez’s The Beast: Riding the Rails...
...Francesca Franci is her maid, Suzuki. Italian tenor Marco Berti is the “Yankee vagabondo” Pinkerton and Franco Vassallo is Sharpless. Performances continue until May 28....
...There are a few early paintings by Velázquez in the show but, apart from the penetrating portraits of Juan Martínez Montañés and Reverend Mother Jerónima de la Fuente, they are not a patch on the Zurbaráns...
...Thus Zurbarán’s “St Francis Standing in Ecstasy”, reinventing the patron saint of animals as an Inquisition philosopher, portrays the moment his uncorrupted body is discovered in his tomb: St Francis stands...
...Ramon Vargas (Rodolfo) and Ana Maria Martinez (Luisa) are ideally matched in poise, accuracy and riveting musicianship but he falls a trifle short of dramatic force and her soprano fails to bloom at the...
...Stefano Secco (Adorno) can do the crowd- pleasing tenor squillo but throws in too much vulgarity and Ana Maria Martinez’s lovely voice never quite seems on top of Maria’s music....
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