Word: spain
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...architecture is concerned, if the 20th century was the age of the box, the 21st is fast becoming the age of the wiggle. Over the past few years, and especially after the debut of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the sturdy glass-and-steel rectangle, for decades the default mode for serious buildings, has begun to give way to the parabola, the whiplash curve and geometries so irregular, there's no point in looking them up in geometry books. Thanks to a combination of insistent forward thinking by architects and ever more ingenious computer-design software, buildings...
...however much the Parasol works as a café or a concert venue, wowing may be its abiding function. That's one reason Terence Riley, the chief architecture curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, decided to feature the Parasol in "On-Site: New Architecture in Spain," a show that runs at the museum through May 1. "This thing has the same purpose as a triumphal arch," he says. "It's a generator of wonder...
...phone book). Through an old friend, he managed to get a pair onto Agnelli's feet. Word of mouth grew. He opened a few stores. By 1997 he had added handbags to the brand. Suddenly everyone from Princess Diana to Cher, Hillary Clinton, Jack Nicholson and the King of Spain were wearing J.P. Tod's. In 1999 he dropped the J.P.?too many people were inquiring after a real person...
...came at all, would take years to implement. The big players will not remain idle, because mergers add to their profits. "These energy companies are already big enough to be efficient," says Alfredo Pastor, professor of economics at the University of Navarre's International Graduate School of Business in Spain. "What each wants now is to control other companies." One reason: bulking up through acquisitions can strengthen a power firm's bargaining position when it comes to securing the supply of gas and its price. Europe last year relied upon imports for around one-third of the estimated 532 billion...
...least a couple of archaeologists, including Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian, even go so far as to suggest that the earliest Americans came from Europe, not Asia, pointing to similarities between Clovis spear points and blades from France and Spain dating to between 20,500 and 17,000 years B.P. (Meltzer, Goebel and another colleague recently published a paper calling this an "outrageous hypothesis," but Dillehay thinks it's possible...