Word: spain
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...most museums keep windows to a minimum, which eliminates one of the main tools for making surfaces come alive. So for the exterior of the Denver museum, Libeskind chose more than 9,000 panels of titanium, the same material that covers Gehry's celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. It's a metal with a soft, refulgent glow and a variety of personalities. Gehry's titanium has a slightly golden cast. Libeskind's shifts from gray to silver and even to a peachy ocher, depending on the time of day and quality of the light. The shimmering surfaces...
...your Euro? That's the question for tennis fans at the U.S. Open, which gets under way this week in New York City. Is it the melted-chocolate-smooth Swiss, Roger Federer, 25, or the bulldog from Spain, Rafael (Rafa) Nadal, 20? The top-ranked players in the world--Federer is No. 1, Nadal No. 2--have met in two major finals this summer, with the dirtballing specialist Nadal spoiling Federer's bid for the Grand Slam by beating him on the clay at the French Open. Federer, in turn, held serve against Rafa on the drag-strip grass...
...infrastructure and civilians of Lebanon are absolutely disproportionate and lacking in basic human consideration. The kidnapping or killing of two or three soldiers in no way excuses the slaughter of hundreds of civilians. Israel is not playing fair. Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga San Sebastián, Spain...
...DIED. Rudi Stern, 69, artist who specialized in what he called "painting stories with light"; in Cadiz, Spain. In the 1960s he designed projections for concerts by classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...
...DIED. Miguel (Anga) Diaz, 45, considered the finest conga virtuoso of his generation, who energized genres from jazz to traditional Cuban standards with his battering five-drum technique; of a heart attack; in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, Spain. A player on the 1997 trilogy of albums of Cuban maestros that launched the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, Diaz became a force on the British label World Circuit, which last year released his album Echu Mingua, an electrifying mélange of West African music, hip-hop and riffs on jazz classics...