Word: iberians
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...port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding the long trip around the Iberian Peninsula...
...result was one of the few indisputably great portraits that he, or anyone else in this century, has produced: a densely sculptural image, hieratic and masklike, more compact almost than matter itself. Picasso's absorption of "primitive" shape (he had spent a lot of time with Iberian and Egyptian sculpture that year) was now complete, and the way to Cubism was open...
...Benjamin Palencia of the Vallecas school, which sought to escape from academicism and create a new kind of national art based on themes and images from Spanish tradition and folklore. Even while he lived as an exile in Russia, his sculpture, primarily in wood and sheet iron, remained distinctly Iberian in spirit. "He saw art in everything," his widow Clara recently recalled. "And once he had seen it, everything became a work of art. It all served his purpose-clay, stones he stumbled across on a path, old wood, a piece of iron...
...United Nations. The omens could not have been brighter. Spanish U.N. Ambassador Don Jaime de Pinies applauded "the splendid example of peaceful independence" set by tiny Equatorial Guinea, and in return the nation's U.N. ambassador, Saturnine Ibongo lyanga, said his countrymen hoped to be "an Iberian bridge to Africa." All differences seemed ironed out between the 60,000 Fangs of underdeveloped Rio Muni, the mainland wing, and the 8,000 Bubis of the prosperous island of Fernando Poo. Francisco Macias Nguema, 45, was elected President, and his fellow Fang, cosmopolitan Atanasio Ndongo, 41, became Foreign Minister. Then, unhappily...
...they are instantly recognized the world over. Though he insists that he only draws what he sees, his images are usually a surreal shorthand. An asterisk denotes a star, a curlicue a snail, a cartoon figure with popeyes and a Minnie Mouse behind becomes a kind of Iberian Everyman. "I'm always in a state of dreaming," says Miró, suggesting that his night vision discerns what others cannot...