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...painter a worse embarrassment than Salvador Dali? Not even Andy Warhol. Long before his physical death in 1989, old Avida Dollars -- Andre Breton's anagram of his name -- had collapsed into wretched exhibitionism. Genius, Shocker, Lip-Topiarist: though he once turned down an American businessman's proposal to open a string of what would be called Dalicatessens, there was little else he refused to endorse, from chocolates to perfumes. He was surrounded by fakes and crooks and married to one of the greediest harpies in Europe: Gala, who made him the indentured servant of his lost talent even...
Nevertheless, Dali was an important artist for about 10 years, starting in the late 1920s. Nothing can take that away from him. Other Surrealists -- especially Max Ernst and Dali's fellow Catalan Joan Miro -- were greater magicians; but Dali's sharp, glaring, enameled visions of death, sexual failure and deliquescence, of displaced religious mania and creepy organic delight, left an ineradicable mark on our century when it, and he, were young. Dali turned "retrograde" technique -- the kind of dazzlingly detailed illusionism that made irreality concrete, as in The First Days of Spring, 1929 -- toward subversive ends. His soft watches will...
Hayek, who is personally worth more than $1 billion, is passionate about his playtime too. He is a fervent tennis player and skier, owns two vacation homes in southern France, collects art (a Dali melted-watch sculpture graces his office), adores classical music, Cuban cigars and good food. "I'm a sensual kind of guy. I drink life fully," he says...
...airs, Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes) is both corny and surreal, like some unpleasant crossbreed of Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell. We don't buy it, and we haven't bought it since Mary Poppins. Our disbelief refuses to suspend...
...might even say, then, that the Salvador Dali painting hanging on Schacter's office wall serves more than an aesthetic purpose for this professor of psychology. The painting is a tribute to the "art" of memory--an art which colors all our lives...