Word: daly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaders in an attempt to reconcile. "She's resisting because she is who she is," says TIME's Peter Hawthorne. "Winnie Mandela does not give up on anything without a fight." Mandela said he could never reconcile with his wife after seeing a love letter she had written to Dali Mpofu, her attorney in her 1992 kidnapping trial. When she was convicted later that year, the Mandelas separated. Nelson told the court that that he is determined to end the marriage, and said there has be no intimacy in their marriage since he returned to live with his wife...
...standard set of college gear falls into several spheres, depending on your personal taste: "interesting artsy decorations" (German Expressionist prints, obscure band posters, Dali), "I'm holding out on adulthood toys" (Star Wars action figures, Muppet collectibles, the Magic 8 Ball, anything from the JFK Street level of Urban Outfitters), and "sexually suggestive paraphrenalia" (massage oil, Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, whips, handcuffs). Invite the person to sit down on the bed with you so that they can get a good look at your stuff, and let the good times roll...
Perhaps the most important imaginative relationships in young Dali's life were with people, not paintings: the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the future filmmaker Luis Bunuel. United in their loathing of bourgeois convention -- Dali and Lorca coined the term putrefact for any stale idea or piece of kitsch that offended their nostrils -- the three were, in fact, very different creatures. Bunuel never lost his anarchic iconoclasm, whereas middle age ended Dali's; but the films they made together (An Andalusian Dog, 1929, and The Golden Age, 1930) remain classics of provocation. For a few years, Lorca and Dali found...
...crystalline and extravagant beauty of Lorca's imagery helped release similar qualities in Dali's work; above all, it was the poet's baroque character, his preoccupation with death, sex and the morbidity of flesh, that encouraged the younger artist's imagination. The mark Lorca left on Dali's art was not its modernity but its extreme Spanishness. But that, too, is why Dali's best work has lasted...
...exhibition traces Salvador Dali's precocious progress from age 12 to 25, as he tried on style after style...