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...year of conferences, exhibitions, school activities and open days - smaller shows are being negotiated for cities ranging from Berlin, Rome and London to Shanghai and Philadephia - is to go beyond the postcard image of Gaudí's best-known work, the incomplete Sagrada Família cathedral. (Its latest guesstimated finishing date is 2030.) "Today Gaudí is more popular than known, and we want to change that," says Giralt-Miracle. "He had his feet on the ground, but his imagination in the infinite, arriving at a time - the turn of the 19th century - when the Catalan bourgeoisie had lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaudí Mania | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...been ambivalent. Architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more explicit, calling the Sagrada Família "one of the most hideous buildings in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaudí Mania | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...priced goods before his country is ready. "We're joining the FTAA only if it's convenient for us," Lafer told TIME last week. Brazil gained support in that position from Venezuelan president Chávez, a strident critic of the U.S., who flew down to Brasília last month to say that moving the date forward "would be for us a process of disintegration." Then Chávez asked for Venezuela to become an associate member of Mercosur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Summit of the Americas | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

...should be treated better because we left our families to stay here for the students," Lia Fajardo says, a dining hall worker in Quincy house who stayed Monday night in Quincy House suite...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Weathers March Nor'Easter | 3/7/2001 | See Source »

...church has enough saints and people of merit to last till the next millennium. Who will it canonize next? Benito Mussolini? LIA CHASEN East Norwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 25, 2000 | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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