Word: alberti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passing cyclist tossed a grenade into the Restaurant de 1'Avenir; another cyclist threw a grenade into a crowd of shoppers a few blocks away. At the Alberti Bar, a khaki-clad man stepped from a black car, slipped a leather-strapped machine gun from his shoulder, and me thodically began pumping bullets into the customers. On Avenue Kleber, an elegantly dressed man unlimbered a machine gun and raked customers and passers-by on the terrace of the Cafe de Palmarium. Total casualties in Sidi-bel-Abbes' 30 minutes of terror: eight dead, 17 wounded...
...romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that had Lorca's arrival in America merely coincided with his abandonment...
...didn't tell the artists what to paint," explained Dr. Aldo Alberti, Esso's contest director. "We just gave them hints. After all, oil is part of every landscape. A gasoline pump to the modern eye is like a tree...