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Comenz? su carrera como el constructor m?s importante de viviendas econ?micas en La Florida pero en los ?ltimos 26 a?os, el urbanizador Jorge P?rez se ha convertido en el Donald Trump del tr?pico, con casi 50 edificios de condominios en diferentes etapas de construcci?n en el sur de la Florida, Fort Myers y Las Vegas. Su compa??a, Related Group of Florida, report? $2.1 mil millones en ganancias en el 2004, colocando a P?rez en el tope mismo de la lista de los 500 hispanos m?s relevantes del mundo de los negocios. En algunas de sus lujosas torres, se han vendido...
...career in the theater (could she ever live up to her name being publicized weekly in the Times?). And because the search for Ninas occasionally got more attention than the drawing than concealed them, some Hirschfeldians argue that it reduced his standing from an artist to a puzzle-constructor. But he couldn't stop and, as a giver of pleasure, he wouldn't want to. Those ten strokes simply added to the density, as well as the delight, of a Hirschfeld drawing. They also answered the question, "What's in 1 name?" with the more complex question, "What...
...sculptures had eschewed. This was as unexpected as the moment in 1970 when Philip Guston, known for 20 years as a painter of fugitive gray-rose webs, showed his first paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen and sent an avalanche of taste rolling toward "clumsy" figuration. What was the erstwhile constructor up to? This show tells...
...Edge. This is the special value of Di Suvero's work. It is also the justification for its immense scale. Steel is a tough substance and, below a certain range of size, a sculptor can make any configuration with it that he wants. The hard task for any constructor is to push the size of the sculpture to the point AP where engineering becomes an issue and the steel might fail-and then to find the one form that works both aesthetically and structurally. Di Suvero proceeds by trial and error, bracing and rigging the parts until they work...
...reception in Washington, he was approached by a Soviet official who wanted to introduce him to NASA Administrator Dr. Thomas Paine. Beregovoy, lost in contemplation of a braless blonde's plunging neckline, barely managed a curt "how do you do." "Georgy," growled the official, "this is the constructor of the American Apollo." Beregovoy did not even look up. The official led Paine away, then went back and pried his hero loose with some strong words. "You see," he explained later, "we also have a swinger among our cosmonauts...