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...ever-ready wisecrack, Painter Gikow insists that all her friends think of her as "a clown." Like most clowns, she is a well of sadness. Though she can capture the mood of a city with brilliance-a grey and misty Paris, a self-consciously French Brussels, a stifled Madrid with skull eyes for windows-her chief subject is the individual caught in a moment of pain, passion or loneliness. In her Old Folks Home, which was inspired by a nursing home her 81-year-old father was once in, the old couples sit close together, but each person has withdrawn...
...Living with a foreign family while studying at the universities of Bonn, Caen or Madrid during the junior year's fall and winter quarters. No vacation, the stint involves four daily hours of classroom study, intense language training and a strong dose of cultural shock. "A college can no longer give a broad education in its little oasis," says Hicks. "We're trying to use the whole world as our campus...
Candela, a native of Spain who studied at the University of Madrid, has designed and constructed a number of dramatic buildings in Mexico with thin concrete roofs in the form of hyperbolic paraboloids, umbrellas, folded slabs, elliptical domes, and undulating curves. His works include the cosmic ray pavilion of Mexico's University City and a number of churches, warehouses, and restaurants...
...Charles de Gaulle was generally getting tougher on the S.A.O., neither Paris nor Madrid was saying how long the prisoners would be held in jail. Possibly there might be a swap-although many Frenchmen were arguing that this would be a betrayal of France's longstanding tradition of offering political asylum to all comers...
...Campesino, the man who survived everything from the battle of Madrid to the building of the Moscow subway, it did not seem likely that he had really reached the end of his career as a freelance warrior...