Word: diego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York 2 Los Angeles 3 Chicago 4 Houston 5 Philadelphia 6 San Diego 7 Phoenix 8 San Antonio 9 Dallas 10 Detroit...
...theology of painting" is how one of Diego de Velazquez's 17th century admirers described his work. What did he mean? That the work was true; that it represented a truth about nature, as theology did about God; that this truth was conclusive, beyond further argument. In a culture ruled by King and church, where the arts were easily accused of frivolity and sensuality, this was a colossal claim. Very rarely, an artist gets to transform the conditions of his culture--not just add to them or jog their evolution, but alter them decisively. This is what Picasso...
...cynic looking back could not have contempt for it. To re-create the bustling, politically contentious '30s, when a young Orson Welles tried to stage the socialist musical The Cradle Will Rock with federal funding, Robbins has splashed a couple of dozen real people onto a garish movie mural, Diego Rivera-style. While Welles (MacFayden) and producer John Houseman (Elwes) try to persuade their government patron (Jones) not to cancel the show, Nelson Rockefeller (Cusack) romances Rivera (Blades), then literally trashes his work. There's also a young actress (Watson), an old ventriloquist (Murray), a swank saleswoman for fascism (Sarandon...
...Angeles 10 Colorado Springs 9 Honolulu 8 Denver 7 Portland 6 San Francisco 5 Washington 4 Seattle 3 Minneapolis 2 San Diego...
...stint as a San Diego Padre...