Word: spaniard
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George Santayana, that New England Spaniard, was such an outside-insider. So is Wilfrid Sheed, who-to his public's edification and entertainment -cannot make up his mind whether he will sound like an Oxford-trained critic, an Irish pub wit, a defrocked Catholic priest or a simply first-rate novelist. In any role, he is never more than, say, three-quarters American...
...found inspiration about four years ago when he walked into a Barcelona gallery and saw some tapestries -"hangings," in the current vernacular -by a young Spaniard called Josep Royo. They were insouciant works, with various objects sticking out of the wool. Miró decided at once that with Royo he could and would create a new style, in a career that has had many styles. He sought out the young man, told him briskly: "Let's start working together at once. We are going to break traditional molds." In the next years, the two worked in close collaboration. Every...
...camera slowly pulls back it is Vermeer's View of Delft, hanging on its wall of the Mauritshuis in The Hague where it is being looked at by a man who thinks of himself as a spy, thinks of himself as being shadowed, and who may be a Spaniard, a businessman named Ramon Mercader, which happens also to be one of the names by which history knows a different secret agent-the man who assassinated Leon Trotsky...
...distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist has been able to pack more sensation into a form than this Spaniard, engaged in his lifelong conversation with Eros and Thanatos...
...morning, he sometimes sketched in bed, and he delighted in going through the mail to see what outrageous request or oddity someone might have sent him. Like a good Spaniard, he lunched around 2 o'clock, then occasionally went for a walk in the garden with Jacqueline and their two Afghan hounds. After a siesta, there was tea, and when he was not expecting friends, Picasso read or worked until 2 or 3 in the morning. "Work is what commands my schedule," he told a friend. "Daylight is perfect to contact friends -which is always a must with...