Word: fiestas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lost Passion. Life is not like this, and neither is Picasso's. The elaborate fiesta that the mayor and citizens of Vallauris have prepared for his birthday will go largely unrecognized by Picasso, predicted his dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 87, who has known the artist since 1907. "I'm sure that he will disappear for his birthday this year as usual. Perhaps he won't even leave his house. But he will cut the telephone; he will start saying that he is traveling somewhere. He always does." Picasso still dresses with a dandyism beyond the wildest dreams...
...trailers to computers from IBM, Burroughs and Control Data. Computers? Certainly. Communists control 1,100 of France's 38,000 municipalities and, like mayors of more conservative stripe, they are rapidly turning to computers to help ease their administrative burdens. As the conservative newspaper Le Figaro noted: "This fiesta of socialism is a showcase for capitalism...
Since Composer Gian Carlo Menotti launched his Spoleto Festival 14 years ago, Spoletini have enjoyed raking in the profits. Menotti began to worry that they were missing the cultural meaning of it all, so he held a meeting and urged them to "make the whole city a festival." The fiesta-fond Italians took him at his word, celebrating Menotti's 60th birthday with brass bands, torchlight processions and 2,000 signed testimonials of affection. Awakened by a rendition of his own Triple Concerto, the composer sniffled: "Before this I felt like an ornament. Now I feel like a household...
...railroad roundhouse in Mexico City in which seven engines were destroyed. But the government has not let the Left take the lead in terrorism. In the State of Sinoloa in North Mexico 13 persons, including three women and a child, were killed when soldiers fired into a fiesta crowd celebrating a baptism. The government explained this, as it has similar incidents, as an attempt to stop narcotics traffic...
...mellowed since then, and this summer the exile was welcomed home posthumously with a large exhibition of his sculpture, drawings and stage designs at Madrid's Museum of Contemporary Art. Critics hailed the show as a revelation. "The missing link in contemporary Spanish art," wrote one. "A fiesta mayor," declared another. "Like El Cid, the sculptor has returned to the land where he was born and lived his Spanish years to win new battles after death...