Word: barcelona
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Spaniards speak of their present desencanto, or disenchantment, as if it were akin to a disease. "Spain is ailing," says Jose Maria Aznar, head of the conservative Partido Popular. "A climate of anxiety has taken hold." Even the popular Barcelona Games, which have spurred an architectural renaissance in that aging port, have been besieged by Catalan nationalists insisting that their flag be flown and their anthem played. Last week police arrested seven armed members of the Catalan independence movement for plotting to kidnap an Olympic athlete or official. A newspaper headline groused, THE OLYMPICS WILL COST EACH TAXPAYER MORE THAN...
...Europe, where the prosperous 1980s have evolved into the recessionary 1990s and the popularity of most governing parties is falling. But Spain's ruckus seems perversely timed: Expo has attracted about 7 million visitors in 10 weeks, Madrid is preening as this year's European Cultural Capital, and refurbished Barcelona is welcoming 7,000 members of the international media for the country's first Olympics. "It's good to be self- critical, " says Angel Luis Gonzalo, head of Spain's Expo pavilion. "But we should be boasting more about what we do well...
Lithuania may be light-years away from the glamorous runways of Paris, but its newly independent Olympic team will head for Barcelona in the high-style finery of acclaimed Japanese designer Issey Miyake...
Harvard track and field team captain Nick Sweeney '91-'92 is only the latest Crimson athlete to qualify for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Sweeney will compete for his native Ireland in the discuss...
Preparations for Barcelona? The Republican National Convention in Houston? The next Murphy Brown episode...