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What primarily motivated Juan Perón was political opportunism, not the making of a new social order. But, he created an ideological façade that promised the people social change, social justice, economic independence from foreign powers and political sovereignty. Perón called this ideology "justicialismo," a "middle way" between Communism and capitalism...
...zebra-like image doubled by refraction onto a rounded object that protrudes from the righthand side of the picture. The distinctness of these evenly-spaced bars of dark and light anticipates the immaculate surface of hard-edge pointing in the 50s and 60s. His later "Basque Façade" (France 1951) shows an obxious knowledge of the work of artist Piet Mondrian who was painting clear-cut balanced grids scattered with blocks of solid...
...Venice, according to Professor Pasquale Rotondi, head of Italy's national restoration center, the famed bronze horses on the façade of St. Mark's must be removed to an atmosphere-controlled room in the Marciana Library, "before the season of lagoon fogs" begins in late fall. Their bronze is now too corroded by pollution to remain outside. The same measures, Rotondi insists, are needed to preserve the so-called Doors of Paradise that Ghiberti made for Florence's Baptistery...
Marked by a row of plastic shrubs and a golden moose head that juts over the street like a ship's prow, the lodge presents an austere façade of concrete, without windows. A sign on the closed front door says MEMBERS ONLY. Anyone who wants to enter must press a button and wait to be inspected by the bartender via closed-circuit...
...there are now 357 divorces for every 1,000 marriages, it is little wonder that children do not necessarily heed their parents' advice or consider marriage their ultimate goal. "There's a healthy disrespect for the façade of respectability behind which Albee-like emotional torrents roll on," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin...