Word: dove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Belgian art lovers could breathe easy. The restored Lamb, back in place in Ghent's Cathedral of St. Bavon, looked better than it had for centuries. Long-obscured flowers sprouted from the grass, the grey clouds that once hovered about the holy dove had become a rain-bow-hued nimbus, and a lovingly detailed background landscape emerged clearly from the greenish-brown mist of generations. Everywhere, colors brightened to the rich blues, yellows and reds the Van Eycks had originally painted...
...keep my bird?" Anny asked. "Of course I'm keeping it," replied Vishinsky. Anny was taken aback. She was even more chagrined to find herself erroneously identified in Parisian papers next day as a representative of a Communist women's organization. Terribly upset, Anny bought 59 more doves, sent one to each U.N. delegation (except, of course, the Russians). It wasn't the first time a Russian had grabbed a peace dove from the unsuspecting West...
Silent Laughter. Inside the meeting place of the General Assembly, after fondling the ruffled dove for photographers, Andrei Vishinsky gave the bird back to an aide, strode up to the speaker's podium to eat some crow. No one, including his bosses in Moscow, had been much amused by his laughing dismissal of the West's disarmament proposals the week before. In Pravda's account of the speech, the laughed-all-night passage was cut out. Vishinsky prefaced his second try by trying to minimize his first: "I merely made some cursory remarks at the time...
...days before anybody noticed in the background of The Beheading a strangely familiar bald head, crowned by a dove. Sure enough, it was Pablo Picasso. With closer attention, experts also spotted Salvador Dali in the patent-leather hat of a civil guardsman...
...word got around, crowds streamed into the Crystal Palace to see the painting. Sanchez Bella, organizer of the Biennale, tried to look pleased. Said he: "At the Biennale we even have Picasso's Soviet dove." Said Artist Perceval, sweating, after a long talk with the police: "The dove is not Soviet. It is just a poor little dove who lives in the patio of my home...