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...Martian iceberg. EUROPEAN UNION Save Our Soles The E.U. considered a proposal to cut its fishing fleet drastically in an effort to protect fast-declining fish stocks. Some countries' fleets could be reduced by up to 60% over four years, mainly in northern European countries. But Spain, which has the biggest European fleet - 20,000 vessels - and receives the largest part of the annual $555 million E.U. fishing subsidy, cried foul, saying it had already halved its flotilla since joining the community in 1986. The World Wildlife Fund criticized the proposal, saying it did not go far enough. MIDDLE EAST...
...currently used to subsidize the modernization of the E.U. fishing fleet into retraining programs to help fishermen find other jobs. All European Union countries would be affected, but those with the biggest fishing industries would be hit hardest. Even countries that would get off relatively lightly are complaining. Spain, for example, could lose an estimated 1,300 boats and 7,000 fishing jobs; Italy could lose 3,000 boats, representing 18% of the commercial fleet. Fischler listed "dwindling fish stocks, diminishing catches, too many vessels chasing too few fish, steady job losses and a lack of effective control and sanctions...
...whatever their names, everything about them is observed with delighted accuracy--the way they stand and move, how they gesture, their makeup and coiffure and jewelry, and above all what they wear. Goya was an enraptured connoisseur of clothes and knew exactly what political and social meanings costume in Spain could have...
...could treat his female subjects with measureless respect. One of the finest examples of this in his work, and in this show, is his portrait of the Duchess of Osuna with her husband and family, 1787-88. Related to half the noblest clans in Spain, she was the most cultivated, educated and liberal woman of her age: patron of writers and artists (including, notably, Goya), with her own theater where new plays by the leading dramatists of the day were given, her own chamber orchestra to play Haydn and Boccherini to her guests, and a deep involvement with issues...
Goya was connected to the Enlightenment too. Yet a whole side of his imagination was stirred only by the old black Spain, the country of witches, the Inquisition, absolutism and night terrors, and this too shows with sublime force in some of his depictions of women. One of the things that lends such power to Goya's women is simply that he viewed some of them with a degree of fear, as anyone might. He could not, even if he had tried, make them out to be little pink rococo sex dolls, as was so often the custom in France...