Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anderson covered a medley of topics ranging from Czechoslovakian cave writings and a new theme park in Barcelona she is designing with Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel to the Kennedy-Smith rape trial. Throughout Voices From the Beyond, however, she emphasized and repeatedly investigated ambitious topics of art, censorship, freedom and power. The Persian Gulf War and U.S. politics were the focus of her concern...
...Winter Games, in any case, have always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which...
...republics have begun the process of applying for membership in the international Olympic movement. Although sports bureaucrats in Moscow are lobbying to maintain a unified team and the International Olympic Committee also prefers that course, by summer most of the new states are likely to end up competing in Barcelona under their own flag. Their athletes may continue to win, but they will also be competing against one another. Members of the rest of the world's teams will be forgiven if they quietly sigh in relief that the Soviet juggernaut's decades of dominance are over...
...NCAA also ruled that Llopis must pay back $498 that his team contributed to his tuition while he was attending the University of Barcelona...
...Through our conversations with the officials in Spain, we gathered more information about the organization [F.C. Barcelona]," Justus said. "We now know that Llopis' team did not turn professional until the year after he participated...