Word: paseo
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...thence to the U.S. "To visit Seville and not ride horseback at the fair is equal to not coming at all," she declared. Whereupon, donning the traditional traje corto (black-trimmed red jacket, flowing chaps, flat broad-brimmed hat), she mounted a white horse and made a leisurely paseo of the fair. "I don't know what I'm doing," Jackie laughed, belying her superb equipoise, "but it's very exciting." She rode for a full half-hour through cheering crowds lining the streets, stopped to quaff a glass of sherry in the saddle. Jackie was obviously...
...Madrid's broad Paseo de la Castellana, the heavy steel ball of a demolition crane slams relentlessly into the 19th century palace of the Marques de Selgas, making room for a high-rise apartment building. On the outskirts of the city, Dodge Darts are rolling out of a vast factory complex that less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings...
...Americans of Chapala and Ajijic have adopted many Mexican ways as their own. They look forward to the Thursday and Saturday paseo of boys and girls circling the town plaza in opposite directions to look each other over and flirt their way into marriage. They are careful to cover their mouths against the night air "to avoid catching cold," and not to gush over a Mexican baby, out of respect for the Indians' belief that this will give the child the evil eye. They say "This is your home" when guests enter their houses, and they serve frijoles instead...
Common Style. Most modern Latin American architecture, whether along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, Caracas' Avenida Bolivar or São Paulo's Avenida Anhangabaú, has a distinctive look. Almost all Latin American architects use combinations of louvers, grills, projecting concrete slabs and movable screens to control the dazzling sunshine; they share a lavish liking for color, usually dramatically set off against sparkling white. There is a dearth of structural steel and timber, so the designers have almost universally turned to reinforced concrete. It is a building medium that can easily become clumsy and heavy, but the Latin Americans...
...world. Last year a solid tip that such a collection did exist was given to pretty, U.S.-born Rosamond Bernier, onetime Paris Vogue staffer and now co-editor (with her French husband) of a new, ambitious art review, L'Oeil (circ. 30,000). Address of the collection: 48 Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona. The owner: Picasso's younger sister, Maria Dolores de Vilato. Editor Bernier, who eight years ago charmed Picasso into letting her get the first pictures of his Antibes paintings, headed straight for Barcelona. The pictures of the early Picassos and the family apartment, published last week...