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...Beside him as he worked was a 29-year-old photographer, Dora Maar, herself an artist of some renown and a member of the Surrealist group. She and the 55-year-old Picasso had met 18 months earlier and become lovers; but they also met as artists. "You feel," says the director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Gerard Vaughan, "that of all the women in his life, Picasso treated her as an intellectual equal." There was collaboration and cross-pollination as Picasso absorbed and experimented with Maar's photographic techniques and she embraced painting
...POPEYE Bill Clinton teamed up last year with SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer to promote children's fitness and nutrition--and to get kids to eat their veggies...
Diego, whose show is a spin-off of the wildly popular Dora the Explorer (he's Dora's animal-rescuing cousin), is about to go from TV star to retail brand. About 1.8 million kids tune in to Diego every weekday, and Nickelodeon is counting on them to make his merchandise--Diego toys by Fisher-Price will be out in June; clothes and books by fall--just as popular. "He's bilingual, and he has a sense of adventure," says Nickelodeon president Cyma Zarghami. Nickelodeon is a master at milking hot properties. Retail sales of Nick-related products--from Dora...
...talk so much about Dora might be slightly misleading, as she is a part of an ensemble cast. She can hardly even be called the protagonist. In fact, much of the book’s excitement lies in the way it renders characters through their relationships with many others...
...Dora is one good example of what “The Bell” conveys so richly—what Murdoch describes as the “obscure centre of emotional tension” that characterize people’s feelings for one another...