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...Mariana Rodriguez Villegas' assailants were anything but subtle. After stopping her on a Mexico City street two weeks ago, the four men held her at gunpoint and gave her a blunt message for her employer, writer Jorge Castaneda, one of the fiercest critics of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's government: Lay off or die. Three days later, after the young secretary identified one of her menacers as a former police agent, a fifth thug threatened her life as well...
...abundantly grateful for what we have: the first Velazquez exhibition ever held in the U.S., comprising more than a third of his total known output, including such great works of his maturity as the Prado's portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares on horseback and Queen Mariana and early ones like The Waterseller of Seville, painted when he was around 20, from London's Wellington Museum...
...instance, one wants to know where Philip Guston felt some of the authority for his last paintings lay, where those eloquently clumsy speckled gray-and-pink shapes looked back to, one need only consult passages in Velazquez like the extraordinary plumage of the headdress worn by Queen Mariana for his formal portrait of her in the Prado. Yet not one of his painter-admirers has made Velazquez seem "newer," or in any significant way changed the address of his work. Velazquez himself seems always new, fresh on his own terms, which record the act of scrutiny in the purest imaginable...
Racquetwoman Shiela Morrissey won the first-round consolation championships in the ISA's, while Boyum finished fourth overall. Harvard players Jenny Holleran, Mariana Chilton, Emily Knowlton and Lucy Miller also competed...
...this objective view of Puerto Rico represents the new attitude of LAO. It was founded as an activist group, advocating independence for the island, and in 1980, members burned American flags in front of John Harvard's statue. But now LAO is trying to unify all the groups," said Mariana Ortiz-Blanes...