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...Escorxador in Barcelona is probably the best. But this takes nothing away from the brilliance, even the genius, of his earlier work -- especially in the '20s and '30s, when he was in Paris and making the finest paintings associated with the Surrealist movement. Miro always used to be referred to as ''the great Spanish artist,'' which is technically true but culturally wrong. He was a Catalan artist, and the difference -- as anyone who knows Catalans will know -- mattered greatly to him. Catalunya, that triangle in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula whose capital is Barcelona, has always prided itself...
...with his floppy cap -- the traditional barretina, which is to Catalunya roughly what Stetsons are to Texas -- and his heart, burning with neat little flames of patriotic ardor, somewhat resembling an anarchist's grenade about to go off. The letters that spell out SARD in Miro's loopy calligraphy refer, of course, to the traditional dance known as a sardana. Much barer works followed: the astonishing series of a dozen or so large landscapes that Miro produced in Montroig in 1926 and 1927, which include Dog Barking at the Moon, Animated Landscape and Landscape with Rabbit and Flower...
...nearly half a million people logged on to the chanteuse's website before the much hyped July 11 release, sales are slow, and 55% of French voters think Sarkozy is merely using his wife to boost his image. With lyrics like "my lord, my darling, my orgy" (which presumably refer to Sarkozy)--that's quite an image indeed...
...Jamshed and Mirwais have something of a rivalry between their respective Kabul Fried Chicken outlets. They refer to each other euphemistically as "friends more than partners," though in reality they're neither. Each claims to be Kabul's original KFC imitator, and accuses the other of stealing the recipe from him. Imitation, of course, is endemic to Afghanistan's business environment. "We're an underdeveloped country," Mirwais says. "So we can't come up with our own ideas...
Consider the Republican Party. Many Republicans dislike John McCain with a passion that has lasted for years. Asked to explain, they refer to the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform law (which they thought, incorrectly as it turns out, would bite Republicans more than Democrats), or his opposition (since rescinded) to the Bush tax cuts, or what they regard as his tiresome and preening routine as a maverick. They resent his mutual love affair with the press (which he jokingly refers to as "my base"). They remember a lot of foolish talk a while back about how McCain might switch parties...