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Peter Miguel Camejo, the magnánimo caballero of American third-party politics, who died Sept. 13 at 68, was an irrepressible force of nature. When he spoke out for justice throughout the Americas, not only his body shook, but so did the entire room. As a student leader, he was expelled from Berkeley in 1967 for the "unauthorized use of a microphone," and later Ronald Reagan put him on his list of the 10 most dangerous people in California because he was "present at all antiwar demonstrations." Peter was a civil rights advocate and a leader in the socially responsible...
...overlook the brick rear of the original museum. Galleries start underground and work their way up around the broad shaft of natural light that streams through Moneo's glass lantern. At the top comes the delicious surprise: a gorgeously restored Baroque cloister - dismantled from the neighboring San Jerónimo church and carefully reassembled in the new wing - that functions as a sculpture gallery. "The Prado has never been known for its sculpture collections," says Zugaza. "Now we have an ideal place to show them...
...GERÓNIMO GUTIÉRREZ UNDER SECRETARY FOR NORTH AMERICA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MEXICO Mexico City...
...when the priest said mass, he would be on the same level - and almost in the same space - as the waist-length donor figures at the foot of the cross. El Greco's portraits are simply presented: a pale central figure looks straight out from darkness. Jerónimo de Cevallos (ca. 1610) has an immense, casually sketched-in white ruff and sable-hued clothes. There's a possibility that the subject of A Lady in a Fur Wrap (late 1570s) may be Jerónima de las Cuevas, the mother of El Greco's only son, Jorge Manuel (they...
...demonstrators - perhaps the largest crowd the outlawed Spanish Communist Party has dared muster since the end of the Civil War in 1939 - gathered outside the Carabanchel Prison in the southwest outskirts of Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries, and the 23 people arrested were released within...