Word: fuenterrabia
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...course, only an eye. The intellectual discourse of Velazquez's art took in allegory as well, and the details are never insignificant. When he painted the flamboyant and overweening Olivares on his rearing horse, in front of a city (perhaps the Basque town of Fuenterrabia) that is being burned for its disobedience to the crown, he went to some pains with the kind of detail one overlooks at first -- the pruned stump of a tree branch above the commander's head has fresh green shoots, suggesting that the state is replenished by merciless excision. The Weavers would satisfy anyone...
...Fuenterrabia, Spain...
...When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Ambassador Bowers, then accredited to Madrid, was found sunning himself on the beaches at Fuenterrabia (TIME...
...down the Bay of Biscay watch officers worried. U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers had not been heard from in Spain for four days. He was not at the summer embassy at San Sebastian but a few miles away at his own villa at the narrow little seaport of Fuenterrabia. Was he alive? The engine room telegraph rang up more revolutions...
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