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...pleasantly old-fashioned. The food, while superb, was not trendy; unlike his peers, Vrinat and his chefs stayed out of the limelight. But the perfectionist Vrinat made the kings, film idols and awestruck tourists who ate there welcome, remembering names and hometowns, even opening taxi doors. Once, after Salvador Dal?? had dined with his cat, the tactful and kind Vrinat offered, "Perhaps next time it would be best if your friend didn't come. I had the sense he didn't particularly enjoy himself." Vrinat was 71 and had lung cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...displayed at the Met last winter—being put up in the summer, simply because it demands so much more analysis than a casual museum-goer is willing to give. Rather, summer exhibitions feel like summer movies, complete with high-budget special effects (for example, Salvador Dal??, at London’s Tate Modern), easily digested storylines (Hopper, at the MFA), and big-name stars (Cezanne and Picasso, at the Musée d’Orsay). Granted, you snack on a 12-dollar turkey-and-avocado sandwich instead of 4-dollar popcorn, but you enjoy...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Europe's Big-Bucks Museums | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...became better known in the late 1960s as the musical smart aleck and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show; in Sarasota, Fla. Rosengarden perfected the art of the witty, and sometimes risqu, "walk-on" song to accompany guests. Of Rosengarden's choice of tunes--Hello Dolly for Salvador Dal??, There'll Be Some Changes Made for transsexual Jan Morris--Cavett later said, "Luckily, the censor was dumber about music than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 19, 2007 | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

Very close to the beginning of the 28-minute silent film, Buñuel, who directed the film with Salvador Dal??, stands calmly behind a seated young woman with a razor in his hand. Lifting the razor, he draws it swiftly across the surface of her eye, making a piece of the cornea fall away...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Eyes on Surrealism | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...writing these trite papers or looking at a microscope, they see it in some beautiful form. It’s almost this mirror of their inspiration back at them.”Much of his work features round, globular shapes that evoke lava lamp goo given a Salvador Dal?? treatment—a look and feel that Knep describes as “organic.” He often mimics the shapes of cell organelles or other microscopic biological structures, as in “Drift”—a series of screens that depict...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finding Beauty in Biology | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

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