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Going through "Goya: Images of Women," the exhibition presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington by the leading American Goya scholar Janis Tomlinson--it is a somewhat truncated version of a large show that was seen at the Prado in Madrid last winter--one realizes what depth and intensity Goya brought to seeing his world. The late 18th and early 19th century in Europe had portraitists who could extract gripping narratives of sympathy and experience from the individual human face and body. Delacroix, Ingres, David--it is a long and glorious list. But the most fascinating of them...
Watching the economy of Veracruz collapse in 1999, the family of Maria Isabel Prado saw at least one surefire business opportunity. They leased, one after another, a series of aging, second-class buses--reclining seats, no rest rooms--to run people 1,400 miles north to Ciudad Juarez once a week. Since then, seven other bus companies have started up in Veracruz, doing the same thing. Says Prado, 32: "There's no shortage of people who want to leave...
...Cuban Perez Prado got America dancing sideways to mambo and cha-cha rhythms with his own "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
produced by Ignacio Prado...
...Pechet Maura M Pelham Joshua E. Penzner Richard A. Perez Joshua A. Perry Danilo Petranovich Mei Pin Phua Lindsay J. Pindyck Giselle J. Pinto Nicholas J. Pinto Peter D. Platt Luke C. Platzer Rachel W. Podolsky Eli A. Poliakoff Gabriella L. Pollack Taylor L. Pollack Courtney F. Powell Ignacio Prado B. Aviva Preminger Alexandra Price Jennifer L. Pusey Due M. Quach Lexer I. Quamie Erica P. Rabbit Corilee K.A. Racela Kristen E. Radcliff Elizabeth A. Raizes Adam J. Rambert Courtney D. Rein Sara D. Reistad-Long Philip B. Renton Jed I. Resnick John T. Reuland Spencer G. Rhodes Sharifa Rhodes...