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...BARCELONA by Robert Hughes; Knopf; 573 pages...
...Cervantes, Barcelona was a "refuge of foreigners, school of chivalry, and epitome of all that a civilized and inquisitive taste could ask for." For less quixotic souls, however, the Spanish city has always been something quite other, a contentious, raffish, yeasty place of shopkeepers. Catalans, as Robert Hughes sympathetically calls them, pride themselves on their pragmatism and their independent-mindedne ss: two of their sovereign virtues are mesura and ironia. And at the heart of their idealized self-image is seny, or "a natural level-headedness." The patron saint of Barcelona, St. Eulalia, is also the patron saint of stonecutters...
...Healey makes the squad, she will go through a month of intensive training with the team and then fly to Barcelona...
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...
...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...