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When Franco won the Spanish Civil War in 1939, thousands of left-wing intellectuals and artists fled the country, among them Luis Bunuel. Bunuel, who at that point had only made his surrealist shorts and a superb documentary on Spanish peasants called Land Without Bread, went into exile in Mexico. There after a decade of inactivity he made a series of low budget films combing social criticism with surrealist techniques, the best of which is Los Olvidados, dealing with street gangs and the culture of poverty in the slums of Mexico City. So, when in 1963 Bunuel announced that...
...predictive powers also had to do with art style itself. Having fled from Occupied France to the U.S. (where he married Peggy Guggenheim, his third wife, in 1941), he made some small paintings by swinging a punctured can of paint on a string above a canvas laid flat on the floor; the resulting pattern of drips clearly anticipates Jackson Pollock. There was no chance technique - staining, rubbing, splashing, accidental manipulation, transfer blots - that Ernst did not pioneer; and if the work of his last 30 years (except for the sculpture, which is still much underrated) rarely seemed as impressive...
...THEY FLED FROM BABYLON, from an England corrupt and doomed, to the beneficent shores of the Promised Land, where they would found their "city upon a hill." Guilty about deserting the cause, the Puritans aboard the Arbella self-righteously sought their justification in the hopeless depravity of their English brethren. If the short-lived blossoming of Babylon--the successful Puritan Revolution--undercut that justification, the dread finality of the Restoration left the New England Congregationalists even more anxious and alone, involving them in a desperate search for a meaning to their "errand into the wilderness...
...Bonaparte, Ex-Presidente Fled Elba, his own San Clemente, And hinted Helsinki Was stupid and stinky, Which did not do a lot for détente...
...ordeal that began for Hurricane on a June night in 1966. Two black gunmen had stepped into a bar in Paterson, N.J., and almost immediately opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun and .32-cal. pistol, killing the bartender and two of three customers. Told that the killers had fled in a white car, police briefly stopped a white Dodge but let the occupants go when they recognized Carter, then a nationally ranked middleweight boxer who lived in Paterson. Later that night the Dodge was identified by a witness, and a search of it turned up one .32-cal. bullet...