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...Fantin-Latour's group portrait of the rising art stars of 1864, Homage to Delacroix. "This American is a great artist, and the only one of whom America can be justly proud," said Camille Pissarro. And Marcel Proust turned part of his name, unpronounceable by the French, into an anagram: he became the painter Elstir in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu...
...painter a worse embarrassment than Salvador Dali? Not even Andy Warhol. Long before his physical death in 1989, old Avida Dollars -- Andre Breton's anagram of his name -- had collapsed into wretched exhibitionism. Genius, Shocker, Lip-Topiarist: though he once turned down an American businessman's proposal to open a string of what would be called Dalicatessens, there was little else he refused to endorse, from chocolates to perfumes. He was surrounded by fakes and crooks and married to one of the greediest harpies in Europe: Gala, who made him the indentured servant of his lost talent even...
...series of six books. So titillating was his amalgam of fiction and reality that a number of locals at first suspected that Armistead Maupin must be the pseudonym of some social insider (thus part of the show's title, "is a man I dreamt up," is an anagram...
...walking through the Yard today on the way to the Science Center to get my mail, I saw sign posted everywhere proclaiming the Freshman Arts Group. It would be one thing if that was all the signs did. However, the signs also made a point of loudly proclaiming what anagram the initials made...
...would a Jew feel if there were signs all over the Yard for a group whose anagram was KIKE? Probably similar to being in Nazi Germany. Or, if an African-American was surrounded by signs saying NIGGER? Probably similar to being in Alabama...