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...surprising, then, that the savory city of rebels and craftsmen would appeal to Hughes, the longtime art critic for TIME and the epic chronicler of his native Australia (in the best-selling Fatal Shore). In Barcelona Hughes shows, in magisterial detail, how the brash province has always been as distinct from Spain as Catalan is from Spanish (derived as it is not from early Latin but from later). At the same time he notes, with affectionate irony, how Catalans have sometimes sung the praises of their unique tongue in Spanish. Some Catalans, he remarks, feel homesick even while at home...
...major objective is to show Asians, but ifyou look distinct and modelesque and have dancingand modeling talent, we certainly will makeexceptions," Hwang said...
...Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered a constitutional-reform package known as the Meech Lake Accord. For Quebec its guarantees of a "distinct society" were a bare minimum, but for many in English Canada they went too far. When Meech Lake was not adopted, Quebec scheduled a referendum on its future for October of this year. The federal government is working on a new batch of compromises, which should be ready for national discussion in April. Beyond this hurdle is the next general election, which must be held no later than 1993, and which may see Canadian politics fragmented into five...
What he's talking about is The Olivz raison d'etre--songwriting. Since 1986, The Olivz have recorded more than 100 original songs, totalling over 500 hours of 16 track studio time. They spend most of each day working on new music, and you get the distinct feeling that they'd live in the studio if they could...
Bryson does not try to "sell" Europe, but instead depicts all the color and vitality he has experienced there. He makes his work distinct from other travelogues because he does not merely glamorize the scenes and sights of Europe--he adds all of the hilarious anecdotes that have happened to him in his months of travel. Where else will you find Naples depicted as a dump and a description of the view of the sea at Capri as something for which the author would trade eyelashes with Tammy Bakker...