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Like many artists, Gaudí began with more detractors than fans. One critic in the early 1950s described his famous façades as "tortures of the imagination, fetuses in stone, bulbous obscenities." But today, many hail him as a genius, some are calling on the Pope to make him a saint, and more than two million people come to Barcelona each year to stare at his buildings, love them or hate them. With the 150th anniversary of his birth on June 25, the city of Barcelona and the Catalan and Spanish governments have proclaimed 2002 International Gaudí Year...
...England's best-known football clubs, Arsenal; in London. A stern disciplinarian who left most of the football tactics to his coaches, Mee managed the team from 1966 to 1976. In his crowning moment, Mee led Arsenal in 1971 to championships in both the League and the FA Cup, only the second time a double win had been clinched in the 20th century. DIED. DANIEL WILDENSTEIN, 84, art dealer and racehorse owner; in Paris. Wildenstein was the head of a wealthy French dynasty founded in the 19th century. His controversial family owns two celebrated art galleries in New York City...
...tactics are predatory. In brutal marketing campaigns with names like Plan A (inspired by a popular Jackie Chan action flick), they have cut prices by a gut-wrenching 40%. "I'm the worst one when it comes to challenging all the manufacturers with price slashing," Meijin founder Sher Tak Fa boasts with bravado typical in this rough-and-tumble industry. "I want to show my power...
...after Faulkner's funeral. His novelist's eye colors his perceptions: "Next to the benches, and about three feet apart, are two public drinking fountains, and I notice that the one boldly marked 'For Colored' is sitting squarely in the shadow cast by the justice symbol on the courthouse fa*ade - to be entered later, of course, in my writer's notebook, under 'Imagery, sociochiaroscurian, hack...
...Jewish Museum of Berlin, a shiny metal structure with zigzagging crevices on the façade that resemble a broken Star of David, opens with its permanent collection on Sept. 9. Meanwhile, starting June 17 in London's Hyde Park, Libeskind's shrunken, horizontal version of his proposed Spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum will serve as a temporary café and lecture space adjoining the Serpentine Gallery...