Word: daly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrealist Salvador Dali, filling in for Columnist Leonard Lyons, told the world about his surrealist friendship with Movie Producer Jack Warner. When they first met, since neither spoke the other's language, they communicated by simply saying, "Petite marmite!" Dali went on: "Every time that this same idea mysteriously put our two souls in communication, one or the other of us ... would pronounce the magic phrase, 'Petite Marmite!' ... On moonlight nights we used to ... visit a gigantic spider. . . . From time to time I get a telegram which says 'Spider,' and I wire right back...
...Flying Demi Tasses-Salvador Dali...
...Salvador Dali used a Christmas angel and Star of Bethlehem for a timely nylon ad-a painting hardly more offensive than the mawkish Madonnas and cute little representations of Jesus in most modern chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What...
...Dali shows us the hierarchized libidinous emotion, suspended and as though hanging in midair, in accordance with the modern 'nothing touches' theory of intra-atomic physics. Leda does not touch the swan; Leda does not touch the pedestal; the pedestal does not touch the base; the base does not touch the sea; the sea does not touch the shore...
That sounded like the old Dali, the spellbinder whose ice-cold art-like his Leda-could sometimes shock and sometimes fascinate, but almost never touch...