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...Clumsily earnest world-changers use their skills to hector, valuing bluntness above all else. But there are alternatives....
...Its glass domes, which became known as “Fosteritos”, became to Bilbao what Hector Guimard’s art nouveau Métro entrances are to Paris, markers of place and identity framed in steel, the material on which...
...You enter at the magic wardrobe of Jean Marcel’s “Armoire Surréaliste”, with its panels giving on to trompe l’oeil blue skies, and follow Dorothea Tanning’s nightmare corridor of locked doors and outlandish...
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...I was touched by her vivid writing – letters to friends, family and, of course, her partner Diego Rivera. She was passionate and funny....
...She recalls the relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as being “quite wild”, while Leonora Carrington would have dreams that she had left her body....
...One celebrated lyric has the singer Héctor Lavoe exclaiming: “If she cooks like she walks, I’m going to eat every last scrap!”...
...Mr Castaner also visited Albert Rivera, leader of Spanish centrist party Ciudadanos, this week. More trips are likely, aides say....
...“World Cup fever has taken over everything — the canal, private and government companies have all taken up the soccer players as stars, as idols,” said Roberto Rivera, a popular football commentator....
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...Barragán and his ilk came to the fore at a time when Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, who was born about 90 years after the end of Spanish rule, were redefining national identity....
...Christian Salomé, president of L’Auberge des Migrants, a group that provides food and other aid in the camp, says getting across is just a matter of time....
...He fought with the Czechs when Russian tanks crushed the Prague Spring, was a friend of Václav Havel, and travelled to Mexico in the 1980s to study muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco....
...Gotham’s quadruple bill was, or should have been, a tribute to sociopolitical Zeitoper experiments, spanning Darius Milhaud’s L’enlèvement d’Europe, Ernst Toch’s Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse, Hindemith’s...
...Luis Rivera, Xstrata’s operations director for Peru, said the company remains committed to a $1.5bn expansion of the Tintaya mine....
...The Future of Islam, by John L Esposito, Oxford University Press RRP£16.99 This leading Islamic scholar explores the complex and wide-ranging futures and fates of Muslim practice, culture and politics,...
...“It only takes 3 per cent of Hispanics to switch their votes to make a one point difference in election returns,” says Harry Pachon, president of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern...
...He also has five brasseries in town – Le Nord, Le Sud, L’Est, L’Ouest and L’Argenson – each specialising in regional cuisine (including Asian, if you go to L’Est) at around €40, plus wine....
...Coulter, “the sound-bite babe of the hard right” is a Washington attorney who honed her image spitting bile against “lying liberals” on Rivera Live, the CNBC talk show....
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