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Dali went to art school in Madrid in the early 1920s. "I'll be a genius," he wrote in his diary two years before that. "Perhaps I'll be despised and misunderstood, but I'll be a genius, a great genius." Cold and diligent, he figured out all his poses and provocations in advance. Politically, too, he wanted to be shocking; later Dali would turn into an archconservative, the living national treasure of Franco's long regime, but in the 1920s -- the years of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship -- he was a vehement parlor red. He even did jail time...
Britain's soccer terraces are fertile soil for the neofascist recruiters. In Spain, ultrarightist youths have combined a fondness for Nazi paraphernalia and street violence with a rabid attachment to their home teams, venting their anger on football-field rivals. In Madrid, local matchups resemble a military exercise, as armed police patrol the grounds to separate hooligan bands. Recently, three members of one Barcelona fan club, who frequently boasted of neofascist opinions, were sentenced to 15-year prison terms for killing a young supporter of a rival club...
...Madrid Star 9-mm Parbellum pistol...
Though they are having a great time, Don Manolo tells Fernando to leave because his four daughters are arriving from Madrid, and he couldn't bear to have to lose Fernando as a friend in order to gain a son-in-law. Don Manolo takes Fernando to the train station just as the train from Madrid is pulling in. When he sees Don Manolo's daughters descending from the train, each young woman more beautiful than the previous one, Fernando decides that he isn't going anywhere. It's lovely scene, and Sanz's face has the right look...
...things that flowed from Desert Storm were marvelous," says Bush. "It led to the Madrid meeting on the Middle East, and that led to the handshake on the White House lawn between Arafat and Rabin. And NAFTA was our baby. Clinton, once he got through trying to get by the labor and environmental crowd, worked like hell for it. Give him credit. But it was our deal...