Word: spaniard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest against the fascist bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, to a cluster of peg dolls he painted for his daughter Paloma. Paintings, drawings, collages, prints of every kind, sculpture in bronze, wood, wire, tin, paper and clay; there was virtually no medium the Spaniard...
...back to the huge oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, resplendent in his Rough Rider uniform atop Texas, his indomitable horse. T.R. said his charge at Kettle and San Juan hills in Cuba was "the great day of my life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt, of course, who bragged as President he "took the isthmus" for the Panama Canal as if it were a pawn on a chessboard...
...influence does not guarantee indulgence. As the great Russian scrutinizes the great Spaniard, revisionism becomes the order of the day. Sancho's celebrated proverbs are in fact "not very mirth provoking . . . The corniest modern gag is funnier." Don Quixote's attempts to act like an old cavalier show "a rather limited schoolboyish imagination in the way of pranks." As for the author, "Cervantes. . . seems to have had alternate phases of lucidity . . . and sloppy vagueness, much as his hero was mad in patches." Don and squire wander and blunder through Spain, tilting at customs and rituals, obscure priests...
...Stadler (1982 Masters), Ray Floyd (1982 P.G.A.) and Tom Watson (1982 U.S. and British Opens), Severiano Ballesteros had the defenders of all the major golf championships to contend with last week in the final round of the 1983 Masters. "They are one of the best three," agreed the adventurous Spaniard, 26, who showed he is one of the best himself, easily winning his second Masters championship in four years. That is, if the following can be termed easy...
...making hammered copper masks. This went on through the teens and '20s. In short, González took longer to peck his way out of the egg than any modern artist of comparable stature, and what cracked the shell and released him was his relationship to his fellow Spaniard in Paris, Picasso...