Word: barcelona
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Travel was not without complications: getting a train ticket from Barcelona to Italy proved much harder than we had anticipated. We forgot that Europeans go on vacation too, and that they tend to go at the end of July, just when we were trying to leave...
...have liked Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Achy Breaky Heart” back when I was in elementary school, but I don’t think that, after so many years, you can blame us for its current popularity in Spain. At dance clubs in Barcelona you can dance to a new version: “No rompas mi corazón, mi pobre corazón.” “Achy breaky heart” is at least a slightly more novel phrase than “poor heart...
...Segue to Striver's Row and this artfully appointed store carrying women's garments in sizes 2 to 22. Carefully chosen designs retail from $40 to custom wear at $500. A hot pink sequined top by Custo of Barcelona ($88) was only one of the "just right" accessories and fashion. Ask about upcoming shopping tours of Harlem...
...imagination and to What People Really Want. Now it's Postmodernism that's in trouble. For anyone tired of whimsy, streetscapes modeled after the Magic Kingdom and office towers topped by medieval crenellations, the dry pieties of Modernism are looking good again. Classic Modernist furniture, including the perennial Barcelona chair that Mies designed in 1929, is back once more as retro chic. And last month the state of Illinois acknowledged the landmark status of the Farnsworth House by agreeing to buy it for $6.2 million from the British Lord Peter Palumbo...
...Still, the well-meaning development economists of the World Bank may be even more vulnerable in cyberspace than in Barcelona, historically the unofficial capital of European anarchism. The Internet has long been home turf for the anti-globalization movement, which uses electronic organizing methods to rally cosmopolitan crowds for protest events in different cities around the world. The venue shift is all but an invitation to every hacker of vaguely anarchic bent to show that electronic disruption can be even more effective than the insurrectionist tactics of the street. Indeed, a World Bank spokesman conceded that "we've taken reasonable...