Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks' "Uncle Toms." Today businessmen like Gilbert Vasquez, 39, head of the largest Hispanic certified public accounting firm in the U.S. (five offices, 65 employees), feel that individual successes will be "stepping-stones" to lasting change. Vasquez, who has moved out of the barrio to suburban Alhambra, remains involved in ghetto issues and tries to get other Hispanic professionals to take part in politics. At one chicano fund-raising cocktail party, guests anted up $20,000 for Jerry Brown's re-election campaign...
...period and a bit of mid-marriage bumpiness, Cheryl Tiegs' life seems to have been uncommonly secure and successful from the beginning. The warmth and strength she now shows so easily to the camera is clearly to some degree a reflection of what she knew as a child in Alhambra, Calif. Theodore Tiegs, an undertaker, was a steady, thoughtful, attention-paying father, says Cheryl, and her mother, Phyllis, was a laughing, cuddling person. Phyllis worked in a flower shop when her two daughters were growing up, and Vernette, four years older than Cheryl, took care of her little sister...
...outs are Matisse's last resolution of two visions of nature that were woven into his birthright as a painter: the European heritage of symbols. One was the artificial paradise garden, whose chief example (for Matisse) was the Alhambra in Granada-nature tamed, formalized and patterned to the highest degree of artifice and comfort. A work like the Large Decoration with Masks, 1953, with its repeated gridwork of leaves and cloves, alludes directly to Arabic tilework. But the other prototype was the vision of the natural paradise, exemplified since the 18th century by Tahiti. Matisse had gone to Tahiti...
...almost immaterial. This was no less true of relatively small objects like a 13th century Syrian canteen in silver inlaid brass (see color page), with its elaborate conflation of Islamic and Christian imagery arranged in dense concentric bands, than of vast architectural projects like the tile-work of the Alhambra in Granada. It is hard−perhaps impossible−to hold the entire pattern in one's mind, even when looking...
What upset the pair, along with a good many others, was the disclosure by Associated Press Correspondent Peter Arnett that the Pentagon has hired a U.S. company to train Saudi Arabia's 26,000-man national guard. The company, the Vinnell Corp. of Alhambra, Calif, has already begun recruiting among former U.S. military veterans the 1,000 men it will need to do the three-year job in King Faisal's oil-rich desert nation. The suspicious immediately dubbed the task force "mercenaries" and wondered if Vinnell was a CIA front, and double-helix theories multiplied about what...