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Llopis, a native of Valencia, Spain, who transferred to Harvard this year from Connors State Junior College in Oklahoma, said he is relieved that the legal dispute has finally ended...
...NCAA ruled Llopis, a native of Valencia, Spain, ineligible after reports surfaced that his education was subsidized by the Spanish professional team F.C. Barcelona, which Llopis played for as an amateur...
...first hint that something was wrong came in August, when dead dolphins -- victims of pneumonia and liver damage -- began washing up on Mediterranean beaches near Valencia, Spain. But until the past few weeks, no one had | realized the extent of the disaster. When scientists from European countries began comparing notes, it suddenly became clear that some sort of epidemic was raging through the striped dolphin population of the western Mediterranean Sea. In France, where dead dolphins usually wash ashore at a rate of about 50 a year, 50 were discovered in a two-week period, and the toll in Spain...
When Fischl started out, the odds were against the very idea of narrative painting based on the human figure. Born in New York City in 1948, he went to the California Institute for the Arts in Valencia in 1970, just at the height of the belief, then endemic in the American art world, that "painting is dead." Cal Arts epitomized the frivolity of late-modernist art instruction -- no drawing, just do your own thing and let Teacher get on with his. Art education that has repealed its own standards can destroy a tradition by not teaching its skills, and that...
Hand-painted tiles, stained-glass windows and brass samovars have transformed a drab warehouse in Valencia into a Dublin interior, circa 1904. Actors and actresses in long gowns, high collars and tails move about a realistic drawing room replete with chandelier and an old-fashioned square piano; in another room a dining table is set for 16 people. Outside, plastic snow falls steadily. In failing health, near the end of his career, John Huston is filming James Joyce's great short story The Dead...