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...brilliant culture of Spain during the Muslim conquest...
Auden had it right about Spain: "That arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot/ Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe." One thinks of this while visiting "Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain," the new | contribution to the 500th anniversary of Columbus by New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. For a long time, Spain and North Africa were...
...SPAIN: The Dark Side of the Fiesta...
...nine-year-old son. "Old ladies were ! attacked. Prostitutes were everywhere, and addicts walked around with needles in their arms." Last September, in what Malvarrosans call the mothers' revolution, the neighborhood rose up. Every night since, it has held a one- hour street protest. "The only punctual things in Spain are this and the beginning of the bullfights," jokes bricklayer Santiago Marin...
...mood of the nation is impatient: Spain may be willing to celebrate how far it has come, but not without railing at how long lies the road ahead. Democracy and prosperity boosted expectations beyond what an Expo or an Olympics can satisfy. In Seville, the graffiti read EXPO '92: UNEMPLOYMENT '93. In Valencia, a large scrawl on a concrete wall declares NO MORE PROMISES. SOLUTIONS NOW! The time for fiestas may be running...