Word: moorish
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Streets snake around a Moorish church, a medieval synagogue converted into a church during the Inquisition, and a massive cathedral that seems a composite of every wave of architecture to hit the peninsula in the past thousand years. And always El Greco remains in the background: his house, a museum of his work, a judejar (Moorish-jewish architecture) church that houses his The Burial of Count Orgaz. Before leaving Toledo, take a look at the gold-on-black inlaid jewelry and the knives: both are world-famous products of the city...
...Ignatius, his dipsomaniacal mother forces him to look for a 20th century job. He first fetches up at Levy Pants, a somnolent factory with a senile secretary named Miss Trixie. "Am I retired?" she asks often. Ignatius tries to organize the black workers into an ill-fated Crusade for Moorish Dignity. Then he takes up selling hot dogs in the French Quarter. His mother comes to the belated conclusion that Ignatius is disgracing her and wonders about committing him to Charity Hospital. A friend urges her on: "If it's free and they lock people away, Ignatius oughta...
...chose civil engineering but developed an interest in architecture while taking his degree at the University of Guadalajara. Before settling down to work, he spent two years in Europe, where he was charmed by "the architecture of the poor"?by Greek villages, which he had visited, by Moorish souks, which he had not, but had studied in books. Most of all, he fell in love in with the walled, closed-in Arab garden, animated and cooled by the splash of a fountain or stilled by a pool, whose apotheosis he found in the marvelous intricacies of Spain's Alhambra...
...stay at the attractive, state-run pousadas. Some of them are in modernized medieval buildings and cost around $27 a day for double room and bath. One of the handsomest, Pousada dos Loios, is in the south central town of Évora, famous for its Roman ruins and Moorish architecture. At some seaside villages the visitor can rent a fisherman's cottage for as little as $250 a month...
...Hoffman Estates. Irion's home in Illinois was only five minutes away from the Medinah golf club where the 1975 U.S. Open was held. Medinah was built by the Shriners, members of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The course features a resplendent mock Moorish clubhouse and is laid out around Lake Kadijah, named after Mohammed's wife. In fact, those same Shriners are responsible for building that nondescript arena in Billings where Steve Irion used to go to watch the Montana state basketball finals...