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...leader of the troops; I wouldn't know what to do without her," says bassist Clint Conley, tongue firmly embedded in cheek. Psycho smiles and slashes at the wall with her Permo-marker. Back out on the dance floor a thin-lipped woman is distributing pamphlets on a Dada-ist art exhibit...
...Street Journal, or believe the backgrounds of the men who have declared their membership in El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front-There's Guillermo Ungo, a prominent Social Democrat, and member of the first (U.S. supported) junta. Colonel Adolfo Majano, a former military officer. Francisco Diaz, Alberto Arene, Hector Dada Hirezi, Ruben Zamora, Roberto Lara Velado, Oscar Menjivar, Julietta De Colinderes, all of them former leaders of the Christian Democratic Party. Undoubtedly there are some arms coming from Nicaragua, perhaps by way of Cuba and Moscow. Which only goes to prove that sometimes the worst governments are on the right...
...nothing is given up." The aphorism is a frag ment of autobiography. Born in 1905 in a Danube port city in Bulgaria, Canetti claims that his Turkish-raised grandfather boasted of knowing 17 languages. After his fa ther died in Manchester, England, Canetti zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto-da-Fé (1935), published on the eve of Hitler's Anschluss, initiated the theme that would obsess Canetti over four decades...
Paradoxically, Gaddafi has little to show for his efforts. His merger attempts were rebuffed. His military backing for Uganda's Idi Amin Dada failed to keep that despot in power. Despite generous support for the Palestinians, he has few real friends in P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat's entourage. Gaddafi's only notable success came last December when his forces invaded and virtually annexed Chad...
...display such objects as an oval wheel and a fur-lined teacup irked the museum's trustees, and one show devoted entirely to an elaborate shoeshine stand crafted by little-known Primitive Artist Joe Milone nearly got him fired. But he also presented landmark shows on surrealism, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, machine design and artists from Edward Hopper to Claes Oldenburg. In the process, he enlarged the public's conception of what art is. MOMA, Barr once said, was built on the belief that the art of our time "should belong to us, not merely to the future...