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...Republic National Bank of Miami, the loan seemed sound: an $800,000 mortgage on a Coral Gables, Fla., home worth $1.2 million. But the U.S. ! Attorney seized the house in March because it was owned by Thule Holding Corp., a Panamanian company controlled by Indalecio Iglesias, a convicted drug trafficker...
While Southwestern style dominates domestic design, the Moorish arches and walled courtyards of the Southeast are appearing more and more in public and commercial architecture. From the historic Douglas Entrance to the city of Coral Gables, Fla., to Plaza Guadalupe in San Antonio, the Latin elements promise sunlight and accessibility, a sense of invitation. "I've always liked porches, arcades and transitional spaces that are open on the sides," says Miami Architect Hilario Candela, a partner in what he claims is the largest Hispanic-owned design and construction firm in the U.S. "Most Latin public spaces are essentially gregarious...
...attempts should not be made. Hence the interest of "Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors," a show of some 180 works that has been on view jointly at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables, Fla. Curated by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, the exhibit has already been seen in Houston and Washington; after Miami, through September 1989, it will travel to Santa Fe, Los Angeles and New York City. It is by far the most detailed and serious effort ever made to survey...
Seattle's ocean feast is dazzling in its diversity. Coral-shelled "singing" scallops that send forth quiet popping noises when swimming and sweet Penn Cove mussels vie for places on seafood menus with assorted salmons (coho, chinook, silver, sockeye, king) and several types of rockfish and cod. The silken black cod also known as sablefish is especially enticing in the pomegranate sauce that glosses it at Le Tastevin. Then there is geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck), a giant clam that can be sauteed with the robust Mediterranean seasonings that befit what might be described as clam-flavored squid...
...calls for special treatment. When waste-management officials in Maryland complained about the potential for confusion, Neiman-Marcus promptly stopped selling the red bags in its nearby Washington store. But the colored sacks have sold so well that the retailer plans to bring out a spring line in beige, coral and jade...