Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maximum clemency." Even more distressing to the regime were leaked reports that high Spanish officials, among them Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, the center of Spain's Catalan autonomy movement, officials demanded that Abbot Cassia Mauro just throw them all out on grounds that the protest was "a provocation." Replied the burly abbot: "So was the Burgos court-martial...
Hard-liners v. Technocrats. Never in Franco's rule had Spain's divisions been so deep or so public. The issue was not so much the Basques as the shape of post-Franco Spain itself. A rash of campus protests in Madrid and Barcelona nearly two years ago was all the excuse the generals needed to demand that Franco scuttle his five-year experiment in "liberalization" of state controls on the press, the labor unions and the universities-or face a military coup. There were signs last week that the hard-liners had summoned up the fading Falange...
...sampler of diverse American expatriates, 1970-style: IRVING HARRISON, 50, moved his family and his architectural practice from New York City to Barcelona last spring. He was a McCarthy delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and it was there, he says, that he "began turning off." He explains: "We went with the belief that we could still change the whole picture, and we got slapped down like so many children. I no longer believe that the thinking, responsible adult can actually make a difference...
Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office) is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect, Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Miles van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...
...making out. A hilarious and deftly convincing seduction scene finds him in bed with a loquacious airline stewardess whose final act of disrobing is to doff her bellboy-style hat. As she stirs to leave the bed after a discreet blackout, Robert asks the girl where she is going. "Barcelona," she replies for one of the dozens of explosive one-word and one-line laughs that punctuate the show. It is not a cop-out but a truism that in the end Robert discovers that these casual liaisons are a paradise of emptiness that leave him less than alive...