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...problem in seeing Titian whole has always been the popularity he enjoyed in his lifetime. His work was commissioned by kings, princes and potentates from London to Mantua, from Vienna to Madrid. Thus dispersed, the works were hard to reassemble. Yet Laclotte and his team have brought together no fewer than 55 major paintings by Titian himself, along with about 200 drawings and prints. For comparison, there are a further 200 or so works by the Venetian artists who shaped him -- Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini -- and by those who were inspired by him. The latter group, ranging from Veronese, Tintoretto...
...that all is well within the municipal limits. On the other hand, you start to worry when you find signs of right-having nativism in subways, alleys, and mainstream stores. But when you discover the name signs in the midst of apparent sweetness and light--as I did in Madrid and Barcelons--no message becomes immediately apparent. The juxtaposition simultaneously frightens and puzzles...
...didn't surprise me entirely though. In Madrid someone had taken the far-right Falangist party on dozens of building Graffiti's proclaiming "SKIN HEADS" and "KKK" occupied conspicuous places in subway stations. I'd seen racist rhetoric in the T and on down town buildings in Boston, but never to much as in Madrid...
...deranged movie buff named Antonio (Antonio Banderas) decides he'd like a shot at domestic bliss with Pablo. Antonio worms his way into the hearts and beds of both siblings, fixes all their appliances and kills one of their friends. Behind this story rages a giddy post-Franco Madrid filled with Almodovar fixtures: quaaludes, pederast priests, disco-dancing children and haunting boleros...
...power base at the foundation continues to grow. Formed in 1981 by 14 Miami businessmen, it lists 254,000 families as members and is opening new chapters in 10 cities across the U.S. as well as in Mexico City, Madrid and Moscow. Chairman Mas travels the world to urge governments to isolate Castro; at Mas' behest two years ago, the Czechs stopped representing Cuba in Washington. To encourage Moscow to cut its remaining trade ties with the island, he even offered the foundation's help in subsidizing Russia's sugar purchases elsewhere...