Word: palacios
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...meretricious and pure moonshine. Since then, he has bolstered his argument considerably while extending his inquiries to other works of preliterate man. He peered through temples along the Nile with his guide Gamel, "the quintessence of experts - an Egyp tian Egyptologist," and roamed the deserts of Peru with Palacio the grave robber. To avert unpleasant dietary sur prises, Hawkins stuck to an "expedition diet: beer, bread and stews boiled and bubbled to sterility." Surprises some times defied even this regime, however. In Cuzco, a tea prescribed for altitude sickness turned out to be brewed from cocaine...
...financed by Tijuana Entrepreneur Alfonso Bustamante Jr., the son of a local bottled-gas millionaire-is the second major luxury hotel to break the Tijuana mold. The initial gamble was made by Hotelier Mauro Chavez Cobos and a partner, Miguel Barbachano, who in 1970 opened the modern 92-room Palacio Azteca, which has rooms ranging up to a $94-a-day Imperial Suite. The hotel drew so many sound-citizen tourists that Chavez plans to add 250 more units and a 1,200-seat convention hall next year...
After two days of consultation and debate in the restored 19th century Palacio da Ajuda overlooking the estuary of the Tagus River, the NATO ministers settled upon an answer. With the notable exception of France, which still refuses to cooperate in NATO's military activities, the 14 remaining ministers agreed to consider test-tasting the Kremlin vintage. The ministers, who first proposed the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) during their 1968 Reykjavik meeting, set up a two-step exploratory phase...
...version. As a boy, Dax Xenos (Loris Loddi) sees his mother raped by the Fascisti. He swears revenge and years later the adult Dax (Bekim Fehmiu) helps a Castro-style Latin American leader named Rojo (Alan Badel) to survive a bloody uprising. On the way to the palacio, Dax becomes an insatiable voluptuary. According to Robbins' five-peseta psychology, the poor niño is cursed with the inability to feel-with his heart. With everything else, yes. But with that overworked organ...
...fact that in Barcelona he met his lifelong friend and later secretary, Jaime Sabartés. Over the years, Picasso gave Sabartés a treasure trove of his works. In 1963. Sabartés donated the rich collection to the city of Barcelona, which provided a lovely old palacio to house it. Picasso's bequest was actually made a month ago, when he summoned a Barcelona notary public to his Riviera villa and dictated a document, declaring, "I, Pablo Picasso, in memory of my unforgettable friend Jaime Sabartés, grant the bequest to the city of Barcelona...