Word: zugazagoitia
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...database, says that for years Botero was regarded as "an innovator." Now, La Placa believes his current work is "a pale imitation of what he did many years ago." Yet in Latin America, Botero's appeal puts him "in a category all of his own," says Julián Zugazagoitia, director of El Museo del Barrio, a Latin American art museum in New York City. Criss-crossing the world between his five homes, Botero ships all his work to Zurich to be stored until it is exhibited or sold. He has no assistant, preferring to catalog the work himself...
Despite such comic-opera feats, the cause that the Basque troublemakers are trying to promote-an independent Basque nation-is rapidly dying in Spain. The Basques, once thought of as an exotic race of faithful shepherds living in the remote fastnesses of the Pyrenees, bearing such unpronounceable names as Zugazagoitia and speaking a totally incomprehensible tongue, no longer conform to their old image. From Urzaingui to Munguia, they have taken up Spanish in place of their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered...
...Condemned to death after being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
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