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Joining Della Terza will be Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, visiting professor of comparative literature and of romance languages and literatures, Brown University professor Franco Fido, and University of Rome professors Giulio Ferroni and Augustino Lombardi. Della Terza said all the participants were personal friends of Calvino...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Symposium For Calvino Today | 10/9/1985 | See Source »

...museum admirably represents almost all major phases of a protean career. Yet there are a few gaps. Picasso was a Spaniard, and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona has most of his very early works. Madrid has the Guernica, which found refuge in the Museum of Modern Art during Francisco Franco's 40 years in power; London has the Three Dancers; and MOMA still has Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Paris' new museum has several fascinating studies, however, for Les Demoiselles, the painting that initiated cubism, and in years to come there will be loans between the Picasso Museum and other important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Museum for Picasso's Picassos | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...Hume (3-4) was the winning pitcher and John Franco earned his 11th save...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...thing." But what makes Macoristas so good at the game? "It's the good weather," suggests Atlanta Braves Caribbean Scout Pedro Gonzales, who was born there. "It could be the water or the diet. No one knows," says Cleveland Indians President Peter Bavasi, whose Macorista shortstop, Julio Franco, 24, went into last weekend hitting .294. Says Franco simply: "People are poor. They want to play ball." Still, the town has no corner on poverty, sunshine or major league dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Harvesting Baseball Talent | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...leaders which shows that the millions they earn are not going to waste. For example, it should come as no surprise that Tim Birtsas of the Oakland A's with his overpowering 8-2 record is the leading A.I. pitcher. Or it is any surprise that some guy named Franco of the Cincinnati Reds is the leading N.I. hurler...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Don't Take Me Out to the Ballpark | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

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