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...just as skilfully deflect the challenges of everyday life from blissed-out guests. And the hotel, like the gleaming white village that envelops it, fuses local tradition with a modern and international sensibility. Gaucín is developing into a new Deia or Fornalutx: a magnet, just like those Mallorcan hot spots, for affluent north European bohemians who want to immerse themselves in Spanish culture without the bother of learning Spanish. The Casablanca perfectly serves that constituency, but also appeals to a wider clientele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's the Beef | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

Since then, a master promoter has created instant antiquity on a 105-acre network of canals and quays. The canals evoke Venice; the squinched-together houses say Portofino, and the town hall is admittedly Mallorcan Municipal. Some find the pastiche unattractive-"A patent fraud," sniffs London's Sunday Observer, "the most magnificent fake since Disneyland." Nonsense, says Baroness Marie-Antoinette de la Paumeliere, who moved to Port Grimaud after 30 years at St. Tropez. "On its first birthday Port Grimaud already had a soul. This is the first time in my life that I've seen something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Antiquity-sur-Mer | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Only Chinese Spaniards could find work in Peking. Bronston appeased the nation with touching short subjects. While filming Peking, he made a moving documentary about Franco's war memorial at the Valley of the Fallen. Last month he brought out a second documentary bone - this one about a Mallorcan friar who founded numerous California missions. Chief Justice Earl Warren generously contributed his presence to the Mallorcan premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Brain In Spain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...prisoner. Promptly Prisoner Rutherford Fullerton, grandnephew of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and wealthy retired businessman of Columbus, Ohio, emerged from jail with Mrs. Lockwood whose nervous breakdown was declared "narrowly averted." They were met by a cheering crowd, composed partly of U. S. tourists and partly of Mallorcan natives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Grave Concern | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Mallorcan authorities decided that, having collected 20,000 pesetas bail from two prisoners, they might as well release the other three, Edmund Blodgett, Roderick Mead and Mrs. Lockwood's husband Clinton. Judge Vidal collected the five passports, ordered the bailed-out Americans to report daily to him, lest they leave Mallorca. In Madrid diplomatic compliments were exchanged between Ambassador Bowers and Premier Azana who promised ''expeditious conclusion" of the trial. It was expected to end in sentences of imprisonment so short that the five U. S. citizens can be declared to have served their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Grave Concern | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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