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...Several of the characters, including Juan, enjoy a fluid bisexuality, embodying the ideal of what the novel calls the “magical androgyne”....
...Traditionally “Roseans” were drawn from the aristocracy, including Prince Rainier of Monaco, King Juan Carlos of Spain, the Shah of Iran and the Aga Khan....
...George’s older brother, Jackson, is now a musician in New York. His sister, Gioconda, went on to train as a chef at Francis Mallmann’s well-known restaurant, Garzón, in Uruguay....
...“The key to the system’s success is transferability,” says Juan Salgado, chancellor of the City Colleges....
...The rise in short positions comes as Juan Miguel Villar Mir, one of Spain’s richest men, this week reorganised his stake in OHL, a large part of which is pledged to banks as collateral for loans....
...Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president, described the disaster as “a tragedy that plunges us into mourning” in a tweet on Tuesday....
...And then we started working on other cases – [Juan] Peron in Argentina, Getulio Vargas in Brazil....
...Juan Tizol’s “Caravan” was next, introduced by an ominous bass riff, the rimshot clatter of percussion and a wickedly fast double-time bridge....
...A curvy Calder “Spider” dangles above “Countercomposition”, a strict De Stijl diagonal grid by Theo van Doesburg; “Overlooking the Bay”, Juan Gris’ optimistic emerald interior giving on to a cubist-inflected...
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...Juan Morillo, a lawyer acting for Teodorin in the US, said he had no comment on the new allegations made by the justice department....
...Apart from the Rothko, 13 new auction records were set, including $23m for a Jackson Pollock, $21.8m for a Gerhard Richter and $18m for an Alexander Calder....
...Even Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, traditionally a strong US ally, said Cuba’s continued exclusion and the US embargo were “unacceptable”....
...Quesadillas , by Juan Pablo Villalobos translated by Rosalind Harvey, And Other Stories, RRP£10/FSG Originals, RRP$13 In a bold follow-up to Down the Rabbit Hole , Mexico’s Villalobos tells the riotous...
...Records were also set for Alice Neel, Juan Muñoz and Germaine Richier, as well as for a Jackson Pollock work on paper and a Willem de Kooning sculpture....
...No aristocrat was more enamoured with this life than Lord Byron, whose poems (particularly “Don Juan”) are full of “flash”....
...When Juan Vasquez is not at work, he tries to get his business idea – a bilingual tech support company – off the ground....
...This was after Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez of Argentina caused a major upset in winning the gold medal....
...Mid-week, when I visit, San Juan is quiet....
...Citigroup has hired Juan Bejar, one of the leading figures in infrastructure investment, to head a new fund looking to raise $3bn....
...Onlookers were as mesmerised by Matisse’s performance with his blades as by Jackson Pollock’s dripping....
...In Telluride, high in the San Juan Mountains of the Rockies, is the four-bedroom Tomboy Mine Retreat, complete with game room, in the Mountain Village Resort....
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