Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth Theiller provided the high point of the evening with her performance of Things Are Getting Curiouser and Curiouser. Her "Requiem for a flattened banana" exhibited an excellent sense of humor and some charming interpretive dancing...
...Caribbean nations noted for their political turbulence in recent years accomplished an amazing election day reversal. On the same day, both the banana-land of Honduras and the Negro republic of Haiti went to the polls for their freest and most peaceful elections in decades. To further the coincidence, a physician with liberal notions was swept to power in each country...
...first half of the 20th century shakes down into perspective, it seems certain that the art contribution of the Spanish contingent will bulk surprisingly large. Top banana of the bunch is, of course, Pablo Picasso. But there are also Juan Gris, pioneer Sculptor-Welder Julio González, Surrealists Joán Miró and Salvador Dali. And now another name is being nominated for the list: the late Manuel Martinez Hugué (1872-1945), better known simply as Manolo, whose small-scale bronzes and terra-cotta sculptures are the most earthy and most intensely Spanish art works...
...where his father is a professor, he promised to be back in two hours, so father could ride to his English class. When Professor Eliot stormed into the gallery five hours later, his son was staring at an early Picasso "with the gaze small boys usually reserve for double banana splits. A fatherly swat brought Alex to, but it also woke him. he recalls, to the sudden awareness that for him a painting might be more important than a bicycle...
Among the wild banana trees in the hills of Veracruz state, oil crews last week spudded in the second well of the richest Mexican oil strike in more than 20 years. Near by, the discovery well, which gushed 19,000 bbl. a day until it was choked down, was producing 1,200 bbl. a day for the government-run oil company Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos). Capping a series of earlier achievements, the new field signified that Pemex, after the years of fumbling that followed its formation in 1938 from expropriated U.S. and British oil companies, had finally found...