Word: daly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face is something else; the exquisite bone structure and the fine, flawless skin suggest an antique doll. But so do the faces of other girls. It is the immense, luminous eyes that make her unique, almost unearthly, like someone not born but drawn?perhaps by her old friend Salvador Dali, who calls her "a black moonchild, like Lilith. Her sex is not here," he insists, pointing to his groin, "but in the head, like a wound in the middle of the forehead." To Actress Shirley MacLaine she is "all turned in and vulnerable, a child with a highly energetic brain...
...screen she may have been flatfooted; offstage she could have used some lead weights on her shoes. When she first met Dali, he gave her a bit of rock he called "a tiny piece of the moon." Shortly thereafter, the painter invited the young actress for tea. "That afternoon," he remembers, "I had received a beautiful box of butterflies, and I had them on the table when she came in. We had English muffins with honey, and as she talked she took one butterfly out of the box, put it on top of the honey and ate it. She finished...
...chortled Sinatra's ex-wife Ava Gardner, "I always knew Frank would wind up in bed with a boy." The gossip columnists were scarcely kinder. The pair's every waking hour seemed to make the wire services. During the affair, when she lopped off her hair, Dali called it "mythical suicide." After the separation, her behavior seemed more of the same. She flew off to India with her flower-child sister Prudence* for a month of transcendental meditation with Maharishi, the groovy guru. "I got there," Mia remembers, "and it was just the same zoo all over again...
...girl thought, "I think this grotesquity is getting a bit out of hand. Dali, after all, went commercial." You don't have to care? You don't die if you don't care? Blood washes off. Only color doesn...
...Dali on Dali in (some) words and (many) pictures. Inevitably among those present: pre-pop Surrealist Dali, Prurient Dali, Renaissance Dali, and Dali, boy genius grown old. Also, on practically every page, Dali the pyrotechnician in paint, the most engaging, self-indulgent and talented decorator of his age. Appropriately wrapped, like candy, in gold tinfoil...