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...limbs and torsos that have suddenly frozen in mid- action. The models are muscular and, when old, stringy. One is left in no doubt that Ribera found them on the street, in their patched, tatterdemalion clothes, and got them into the studio for a few coppers. In his early Roman allegories of the five senses, The Sense of Smell is a beggar holding up not the flower that was usual in versions of this common subject, but a cut onion, so that tears trickle from his eyes. Touch, very movingly, is a blind man feeling out the broken nose...
Although 90% of all Mexicans claim to be Roman Catholic, the church in Mexico hasn't officially existed for most of the past 131 years. Revolutionary heroes severed all ties to the Vatican as punishment for Catholic support of the landed elite and European intervention. Last week Mexican and church officials finally re-established diplomatic relations. "It is the end of an archaic debate," Nobel-prizewinning poet Octavio Paz told the local press. "We have problems too immense to be wasting our time with problems that are a hangover from the last century...
...roads, leaving at least 38 people dead. An additional 80 were injured or missing, and thousands were evacuated from the popular Southeastern region of Vaucluse, where most of the death and destruction occurred. "It's an indescribable tragedy," said Mayor Claude Haut of Vaison-la-Romaine, an ancient Roman town of 5,000 people 25 miles north of the city of Avignon, where 23 died...
North of the Franco-German border, Charlemagne's bones rest in the gilded tomb of Aachen's cathedral. The community's 12-star flag flutters from public buildings in a town that was briefly, in the 9th century, the capital of a Holy Roman Empire that united Europe from Brittany to Bohemia. But today, as Germans' once overwhelming support for Maastricht ebbs, flower seller Barbel Krutt speaks for Aachen's townspeople: "You can send all the politicians to the moon: this treaty does not mean a thing to folks like...
...Right?), Sarah Vaughan (Black Coffee), even Doris Day (Secret Love). And she's not bad. O'Connor can exasperate on her new album, Am I Not Your Girl? -- she wails this phrase 26 times in one song and closes the set with a dark harangue against the Roman Catholic clergy. But these assaults are familiar. The surprise is that her voice and attitude are true to the torchy material, notably a definitive Don't Cry for Me Argentina. As the publican might say, "Lady...