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...trip to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago, Lotti was struck by the wildly spiraling metallic towers of the Guggenheim Museum. "It looked so different from everything around it," he recalls. "I wanted to do the same thing with a shoe." Eighteen months later, Nike unveiled the Air Max Specter, a slip-on sneaker with an upper sole of grooved, sinuous curves, available in the same titanium gray as the museum's exterior. The shoe became the season's No. 1 seller...
...Parlindungan is wanted for questioning by authorities in Madrid, who allege he was the right-hand man of Imad Eddin Barakat Yarbas, the leader of an al-Qaeda cell in Spain. But Parlindungan, who had returned to Indonesia in December 2000 from Spain, mysteriously disappeared last November, after Spanish police arrested Imad and seven other suspected terrorists. "The Indonesians had him in their hands," says a Western intelligence source in Jakarta, "he was under 24-hr. surveillance and then when the request came in for his arrest, he suddenly couldn't be found." This time, though, it's a sure...
...would probably have smiled to learn that when International Gaudí Year is launched officially this month by Queen Sofía, the "chief builders" on hand in Barcelona's City Hall will include America's Frank Gehry, Britain's Norman Foster, Japan's Arata Isozaki and Spain's Oriol Bohigas...
...Academy, Lu has been afforded many opportunities to travel abroad, both to teach and to study ceramics and other forms of sculpture. Most recently, he participated in an artistic exchange with Sydney Art College where he learned the art of glassblowing. Previously, he had made visits to Korea, England, Spain, France, Italy, and Russia. This instance, however, is his first visit to the United States, where he is on tour...
...work here should be obvious. No government official from a right-wing regime would ever be offered a Harvard position. No professor here would ever say it was “admirable” that a visiting academic had served under Augusto Pinochet in Chile, or Francisco Franco in Spain. No one would blather on about “the quality of a person’s scholarly work, not his or her politics,” if the politics in question were fascist...