Word: daly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on Salvador Dali's "The Last Supper," University Professor Paul J. Tillich has been quoted by this week's Time Magazine as saying, "Simply junk...
...Dali's "Last Supper," which is presently hanging in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, depicted Jesus as "a sentimental but very good athlete on an American baseball team," according to Tillich. He concluded, "The technique is a beautifying naturalism of the worst kind. I am horrified...
...member couturiers' protective association, Designer Dior, 62, is a shy, balding Norman with a birdlike face and trencherman's paunch. Son of a wealthy chemical manufacturer, he started out to be a diplomat, instead opened a picture gallery, where he helped launch the career of Salvador Dali. Switching to fashion during the Depression, Dior first made his mark as a hat designer. After World War II service as an enlisted man, he was one of Lucien Lelong's top designers when Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac decided to back a new fashion house. Boussac...
...combination of the imagination of Jules Oline and Salvador Dali could not have concocted such a triumph of weird and other worldly wilderness as kicked up the dust in Sanders Theatre last night. Fantastic masks, brilliant costumes, lighting of all the colors of the rainbow,--it is impossible to describe, but the nearest thing to it is Barnum and Bailey at their best, minus the elephants,"--and so the writer went...
...Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With a big wink Escudero spoke seriously: "Since nobody knows what is true, Salvador's theory that the rhinoceros horn begins all and the cauliflower ends all (TIME...