Word: miro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...necks, or a picture of themselves with Magic Johnson; with shaved heads or ruptured tendons. Barcelona has long been famous as a city of artists and laborers, a "city of marvels" where discipline and flight converge. Now, to the famous roll call of its industrious dreamers -- Casals and Picasso, Miro and Lorca, Gaudi and Garcia Marquez -- can be added some new names: Joyner-Kersee and Jordan, Scherbo and Laumann. Besides, Barcelona now has something to remember Thimbu by, and even in television-less Thimbu there is a rumor of a place called Barcelona...
...awarded the first prize for literature in the Olimpiada Cultural. In a ceremony at the Palacio | de la Zarzuela, Hughes was honored by the government of Catalonia for his book Barcelona. The prize, which was presented by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, included a bronze Miro trophy...
Barcelona was the place where Picasso studied, where Salvador Dali grew up, and out of whose deeply conservative traditions of family and rural life Joan Miro, Catalunya's greatest painter since the 14th century, was able to fashion an art of the most radical poetry. And the best buildings constructed anywhere in Spain between 1860 and the outbreak of World War I were all in Catalunya, and mostly in Barcelona. The combined talents of its turn-of-the-century architects made it La Ciudad de los Prodigios, or the City of Marvels, as the Catalan writer Eduardo Mendoza titled...
...great distinction of Hughes' approach is that he can move, commandingly, from a Miro canvas to transvestite hookers in the street without missing a beat -- and bring to both the same kind of rigorous attention and full-bodied sensibility. Here is a critic who can put Joe Sixpack and Jacques Derrida in the same sentence. And if at times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down...
...Winter Games, in any case, have always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which...