Word: alhambra
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JOHN FLORES (R) District 31 (East Los Angeles County; El Monte; Alhambra; Azusa...
...cannot do so by mandating employer loyalty by fiat any more than mandating against employee theft and espionage have actually abolished these actions. What employers "owe'' is a matter of a person's perspective of what individuals owe one another: care and concern, or animalistic rivalry? TOM NADEAU Alhambra, California...
...bottlers, however, led by the International Bottled Water Association, are lobbying for a more liberal interpretation, which would include water collected from underground springs using drilled holes. Such companies as McKesson (producer of the Sparkletts, Alhambra and Crystal labels) and Evian argue that boreholes are just another way of extracting water of the same quality. With boreholes, water can be pumped out in much higher volume and at lower cost. Says Kim Jeffery, president of Perrier Group of America (Poland Spring, Calistoga, Arrowhead, Great Bear, Volvic): "Whether you deliver it by C-section or natural childbirth, it's still...
...stucco domes, the mind-defeating intricacy of the mosaics with their cordons de la eternidad (literally, "ribbons of eternity") interlacing in continuous patterns: such things cannot be crated, shipped across the Atlantic and put in a museum. One fragment of a 14th century mosaic dado from the Alhambra, however beautiful, is only a detail and cannot convey the overwhelming effect of the patterning on the palace's actual walls. Thus, although this exhibition looks fine inside the pyramid of the Met's Lehman Pavilion, its sum effect does not begin to equal the setting in which the Spanish public...
Some important items from the original show, such as the 12th century ivory- inlaid minbar, or high preacher's throne, from the Kutubiyya mosque in Marrakesh, were also deemed too fragile to travel. When the Spanish authorities refused to lend one of the spectacular amphora-type "Alhambra vases," with its luster glazes and formalized handles like angels' wings, another was lent by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. But even in its truncated form, "Al-Andalus" is not an exhibition to miss...