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Traced to its Greek foundations, the word architect comes from archi (chief) and tekton (builder). In the case of Catalan "chief builder" Antoni Gaudí, the derivation seems prosaic. For Gaudí, the word breaks easily into the three trademarks of his architecture: arches, technical brilliance and sureness, this last quality sometimes degenerating into rudeness and arrogance...
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...
SCHOOL: Porter-Gaud School, S.C. SCANDAL: A female senior's hobby was changed to something ribald UPSHOT: All 900 or so copies recalled, page reprinted...
...YEARS, GUCCI HAD BEEN descending from Riviera swank to Jersey gaud. Its overlicensed double-G appeared on everything from coffee mugs to ashtrays. Fake versions of its handbags were sold on urban street corners everywhere. Then, suddenly, it found a shoe that fit: a sexy, backless clodhopper that became the must-have of devotees of high style in 1993. Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this...
...spend bigger; they are also eager to itemize their profligacy. No Broadway musical has cost as much as $20 million, and if it did, no Broadway producer would say so. But Vegas is a place where gamblers brag about their winnings, and their losings. Liberace--the patron saint of Gaud Almighty--used to motor onstage in his Rolls-Royce and declare that the Riviera Hotel was paying him $50,000 a week; he was like a child showing his mother a report card full of A's. Same with the Vegas master builders...