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...To be able to walk in 15 minutes from the Thyssen museum to the Reina Sofia, a route that also passes the Prado and CaixaForum, is a real privilege....
...Here’s Prado speaking about the bulls at the 2:45-minute mark.) The Super League collapse and subsequent backlash from livid fans is only the latest adversity Pérez and Prado have been through....
...Prado, who has advised Pérez for decades during stints at Rothschild, Lazard and Mediobanca, also served as chair of Endesa, the Spanish electricity group acquired by Italy’s Enel in a 2009 deal....
...“The government needs to open up every opportunity possible to the private sector,” says Cuban economist Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva a former University of Havana professor....
...Ms Pérez Correa was also downbeat. “We’re losing [this war],” she said. “There is no sign of things getting better.”...
...Ten years ago, Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta were a mambo cover band, conceived as a tribute to Perez “Prez” Prado, Mendoza’s favourite childhood listening....
...“Keith Ellison has been a trailblazer not only for Minnesotans, but for the nation,” said Ilhan Omar, the leftist Democrat who became one of the first Muslim congresswomen when she was elected to Mr Ellison...
...Ilhan Omar, the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, accused the president of “blatant xenophobia”....
...Pérez told us of his up-close encounters with marine mammals in some of the planet’s remotest waters....
...The soundtrack is a playful playlist of standards (Pérez Prado, Capriccio Español) that serves as rocket fuel for Pons Guerra’s expressive dancemaking: a fearless hybrid of classical, contemporary, vogueing...
...And there is an example of the cha-cha-chá into which these forms further evolved in “La Foca (Cha Cha Chá)”, its title a nod to Perez “Prez” Prado, who was known as “Seal Face”....
...Based in Tucson, Arizona, the Orkesta started life as a tribute band to Perez “Prez” Prado, but, after falling in with Calexico, expanded their repertoire to cover a similar range of border-crossing provocation...
...Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 Perez was killed along with his partner, Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon....
...A fleet of black wheelie screens glided on and off and the mood shifted to 1998’s Sad Case (five dancers frisking and yelping to Pérez Prado) and thence to the interminable Some Other Time (four dancers...
...A similar name — Jean Carlos Mendez Perez — appears in the list of names of the dead from the massacre. “It’s a very weird sensation,” Mr Morales said of the fear Mr Mendez Perez had probably died....
...This picture, taken at a wedding reception, shows the Jimenez and Perez men raising a glass to celebrate their relatives’ union in matrimony....
...Rubens and His Legacy, Royal Academy, London Only two major works by the Flemish baroque master here — but both spectacular enough to justify a visit: “The Garden of Love”, the Prado’s voluptuous vision...
...Prado’s “Mambo No5” into a tale of womanising....
...Bassist Darryl Jones and drummer Omar Hakim laid down the crunchy riffs and heavily decorated backbeats of Davis’s last decade, Roney’s pinched stabs and whispered mutters conveying both sorrow and joy....
...A Goya royal portrait in a private collection is exceptional; most were absorbed into the Prado, as were those of Velázquez, who is not represented here....
...Music from Dominic Frasca to Perez Prado spurs performers suspended in harness to be whirled about: one towels the stage clean, another is fed grapes and drinks of water while circling upside down....
...Mexico’s cause was not helped by Luis Pérez being sent off for a second bookable offence as he clearly dived in the area....
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