Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million fast, noting with horror that "for the first time in history, the Democrats have been beating us." Sure enough, Clinton-Gore bumper stickers are becoming a badge of wealth. Best measure coming up: the competition to contribute as much as $250,000 for the chance to spend Columbus Day weekend in Little Rock, being briefed by Clinton staff members...
...Columbus Avenue Restaurant has been a soulfood tradition for more than 35 years. RobertMorgan, the one and only "Bob the Chef," beganselling food during the late 1950s at Mud Kelly'sBig "M" nightclub. The restaurant has been at itscurrent address since...
...next 500 years proved an uplifting time for the Catalans. They were years of economic expansion and political self-assertion. Before Columbus ever sailed for the New World, the allied kingdoms of Catalunya and Aragon already possessed a far-ranging Mediterranean empire. And in what was to become a predictable pattern (aside from the city's prodigious capacity to re-invent itself time and time again), the citizens of the city fought for their rights during many nerve-fraught periods. Their successes are notable: the Usatges, for instance, dates from a century before the Magna Carta and is essentially...
...When divers leap for Olympic perfection off the open-air platform in Barcelona, their performances will be rivaled by the view -- by cable cars moving past Columbus on his column pointing to the New World; by the crown of thorns of the 13th century cathedral La Seu; by the unfinished confection of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, its eight towers reaching to the sky even as the divers speed downward, trying not to make a splash...
Auden had it right about Spain: "That arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot/ Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe." One thinks of this while visiting "Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain," the new | contribution to the 500th anniversary of Columbus by New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. For a long time, Spain and North Africa were...