Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dips burlap into white paint, bunches and tears it, smears and daubs it with black. If he ends up with something vaguely resembling a figure, he calls it Homunculus, and some of his homunculi look rather like decayed and mangled ghosts. Antoni Tapies, 36, who abandoned the University of Barcelona law school to take up painting in 1946, heaps his canvases with paint, then gouges, cuts and scrapes. His Three Stains on Grey Space is exactly what it says-three blobs of thick paint placed at the bottom of a grey canvas...
...demand for concert and TV performances. Surovy handles all the "commercial work" for his wife with such success that "if we ever got divorced, I think she'd still retain me as her personal manager." ¶Enrique Magrina, 38, was a law student at the University of Barcelona when he met his wife, Victoria de los Angeles, in 1942. Although she was studying voice, she had no real professional career until Magrina persuaded her to enter an international song festival, which...
...became diving's foremost philosopher. The prizewinning film made from the book opened the world's eyes to the magic world under the sea, sent both scientists and pleasure seekers hustling for masks and fins to see for themselves. When 130 delegates from 17 nations met in Barcelona last week for the second annual meeting of the World Underwater Federation to exchange scientific data and draw safety rules, the president and presiding officer was, naturally, Jacques Cousteau...
Seat &Refuge. History has also contributed to the quiet splendor of Poblet. Being fairly inaccessible, the region was the last Moorish stronghold in Catalonia. Don Ramon Bereguer IV, count of Barcelona, drove out the last Moors in 1149, immediately founded Poblet as a memorial and an example to the fierce mountaineers of the region. Within the next half century, Poblet became a geographical and spiritual fortress of the combined houses of Barcelona and Aragon, and the resting place of their heroes. A century later, Poblet was a focal point of Catalonia's losing war with Castile. Philip II, Hapsburg...
...been fired as boss of Spain's leading newspaper. It had taken a decision of the Franco Cabinet to oust Galinsoga. That decision came almost eight months after Galician Galinsoga, an old Franco friend, had shouted insulting remarks about proud Catalonia after hearing Catalan spoken in a Barcelona Catholic Church sermon. In reprisal, Catalans had boycotted La Vanguardia, cutting its circulation by some 20% and causing advertising losses that reduced the paper's size from an average 55 pages to 28. What most worried the Franco Cabinet was that the Catalan boycott, in addition to being anti-Galinsoga...