Word: domingo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dictatorship in Bankruptcy. In Argentina, life-as the tango writers are prone to put it-went on. Few people starved or lacked a roof. But the superficial signs were misleading. A decade of Dictator Juan Domingo Perón had cost...
...lead a revolution from 5,000 kilometers away?" complained Juan Domingo Perón in a recent interview. Last week in Venezuela, the former Argentine dictator was wholeheartedly making trouble for his successors in spite of his distance. Reflecting his wishes, Peronistas in Buenos Aires renewed their sabotage campaign, setting off ten bombs and starting three fires in a fortnight...
...recorded mouthings into a joke. "We are broadcasting from the heart of the fatherland," spouts Lux 45. "You mean from the liver," answers the anti-Perón transmitter, japing at the Peronistas' bilious tone. "Perón, our leader," chants Lux 45. "Juan Domingo Gunboat." corrects the loyal radio, recalling the dictator's undignified exit aboard a Paraguayan warship...
...fortunes dwindle, and his regal apartments become threadbare and bleak. But in August 1612, El Greco, then 71, roused himself for a final great undertaking, the towering, 11½-ft. altarpiece, The Adoration of the Shepherds, painted to decorate his own tomb in the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. In it, the Christ Child becomes a glowing pearl, illuminating with otherworldly radiance the three adoring shepherds and St. Joseph in his blue tunic and yellow cloak. Presiding over the scene that soars heavenward like a mighty Gloria in Excelsis is the figure of Mary. The oval face, pointed chin...
Five years after El Greco's death at 73, his body was moved from Santo Domingo to another church, and then all trace of it was lost. In time the currents of taste turned against El Greco. The Santo Domingo Adoration was allowed to become so begrimed under centuries of neglect that few art historians noted or reproduced it. Last year the church, hard up to finance repairs, sold it to Madrid's Prado for $55,000. It took the Prado's experts nine months to clean and restore it. Today, the Adoration hangs in a place...