Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Madrid 1936, Sunday, June 2, 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Free...
...Madrid 1936. This is not To Die in Madrid, the most well-known documentary about the Spanish Civil War, but it was reportedly supervised by Luis Bunuel. A rare opportunity to see a film (for free) which has never before been available in this country...
...this climate of chauvinism, it is all the more unusual to find a successful bank devoted to, and run exclusively by women. Founded a year ago in Madrid, the Banco de la Mujer (the Woman's Bank) has already opened five provincial branches...
...cubism in the early teens of this century-Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger-the first to die was also the youngest: Gris. His real name was José Gonzálèz, and he was the 13th child of a polyphiloprogenitive Madrid businessman. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906 and installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in the now legendary Bâteau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. He painted nothing of importance until 1910, and uremia killed...
...week's end the confrontation between Spain's government and its bishops had shifted from Bilbao to Madrid, where the two sides huddled separately seeking solutions to the imbroglio. The entire Cabinet met and reviewed the situation, and Franco himself spent three hours with government officials at his palace in what spokesmen called "an informal exchange of views." Eight miles away, the 19-member executive committee of the Spanish bishops conferred with Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón, Archbishop of Madrid. Among the 19 was Añoveros, who seemed scarcely contrite about having provoked the crisis...