Word: parejas
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...Hoving loved expanding the museum's collections, and he loved the chase. He didn't mind spending lavishly for major works like the Met's great Velázquez portrait of Juan de Pareja, which cost $5.5 million in 1971, a sum that qualified it then as the most expensive painting in the world. He also didn't mind selling off a Van Gogh and a Rousseau to help cover the cost, which got him into a public feud with the press over the notion of museums selling their treasures to buy new ones. The controversy brought on an investigation...
...MILLION J.M.W. Turner Juliet and Her Nurse 1970 $5.5 MILLION Diego Velázquez Portrait of Juan de Pareja 1961 $2.3 MILLION Rembrandt van Rijn Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
Superficialmente parecen una pareja dispareja. Hijo de trabajadores inmigrantes, uno de ellos creci? en una casa sin agua caliente y sin tel?fono. El otro es el primog?nito de una rica y poderosa dinast?a pol?tica. Pero Alberto Gonz?les y George W. Bush se han unido en el esfuerzo por edificar un poder ejecutivo mucho m?s fuerte. Persuadido por el aquel entonces gobernador Bush, Gonz?les dej? su lucrativa pr?ctica de leyes en Houston y se convirti? en su abogado principal en 1994. M?s tarde, Bush coloc? a Gonz?les en la corte suprema de Texas y cuando Bush lleg? a la presidencia...