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...saint of bullfighters) festooned with flowers, lace and candles. The floats are carried through the night to mesmerizing drum beats and short bursts of melancholic flamenco from brass bands marching alongside. The processions start on Palm Sunday and continue through Easter Sunday. To join the festivities, start at the Gothic Seville Cathedral (built between 1401 and 1517) in the city center, follow the crowds and save the Easter eggs for later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boys in the Hood | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

Airy harmonies and quiet build-ups continue throughout the album in a slightly exhausting downhill amble that includes the regrettably-titled “I Have Been Told That My Skin Is Exceptionally Smooth,” as well as the gothic-esque “My Favorite Things” and “Silent Night.” But these songs are in every way inferior to the album’s opener and apex, “Great Ghosts,” a guitar lullaby about exile, return and surrender that should be the Microphone?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWMUSIC | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...home full justice in A View of Toledo (ca. 1597-1599). Bathed in a stormy light that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere, the city with its castles, mighty walls and Gothic church spire looms above a lurid green landscape and a dark, rushing river. The silvery buildings are emphasized by dark halos; an unseen sun makes the clouds glow. No religious drama is going on anywhere: the only figures are manikins fishing, swimming, washing clothes. Yet this may be the most spiritual work he ever produced - a fitting symbol for a painter devoted to illuminating life's ethereal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming El Greco | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...lesson Edwards and Clark learned from 1992 and 2000 is that the more down-to-earth guy won. Clinton was the kid who had survived his own Gothic mama and his stepfather's struggles with alcohol; Bush was the average guy who, with Christ's help, survived his own. But sometimes you can try too hard to be average--even with a Southern accent. --With reporting by Mitch Frank with Edwards

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Campaign Journal: The Southern-Fried Twins | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...winter staple. But the world's finest marzipan?that oh-so-sweet confection of sugar and almond paste?is made by the cloistered nuns of holy Toledo, Spain. The city, once capital of much of the Iberian peninsula, has several other tourist draws: one of the world's finest Gothic cathedrals, exquisite gold-inlaid damascene jewelry and magnificent swords. But the Spanish themselves say no Christmas celebration is complete without the nun-made sweets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet treats in the heart of Spain | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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