Word: frida
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been moved out of Mexican churches, museums and private collections -- sometimes over protests by local communities that resent having their saints or gods borrowed by the government. On view are 365 objects, starting in l000 B.C. with a five-ton stone Olmec head and finishing in 1949 with Frida Kahlo's The Love-Embrace of the Universe, The Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me, and Mr. Xolotl. Along the way the show takes in the principal ancient cultures of Mesoamerica, from the Olmecs through the great epoch of the Mayans (A.D. 300-900) to the Toltecs and Aztecs; then the viceregal...
...aristocrat lusts after her servant) and Creditors (hell in the shape of a triangle), Strindberg practices his own advice to other authors on the treatment of female characters: "Accuse them, blacken them; abuse them so that they haven't a clean spot--that is dramatic!" His second wife, Frida, an Austrian journalist, compared marriage to Strindberg to "a death ride over crackling ice and bottomless depths." There is little evidence that his first wife, Siri, a Finnish actress, or his third wife, Harriet, a Norwegian actress, would have disagreed...
...light changes. But another wall, a mural of floating patio furniture and suburban houses, is more than a bit obvious--it suggests a rip-off of the Rolling Stones' "Still Life" album cover. A third wall features a mural of haunting faces in the style of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo...
NONFICTION: Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman Eleni, Nicholas Gage ∙Frida, Hayden Herrera ∙ Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov Salvador, Joan Didion ∙ White Mischief, James...
...friends, Rivera and Kahlo were known as "sacred monsters," symbols of "the race" that would be reborn in Communism. Pistol-packing Diego trooped about in work shoes, and Frida in elaborate peasant skirts and blouses, her hair bound with ribbons, her fingers weighted with rings. But the finery hid terrible wounds. In 1925 a bus carrying Kahlo was struck by a trolley car. Rescuers found the 18-year-old girl impaled on an iron rod, her pelvis smashed, a foot mangled and her spine bent to nearly a right angle. Frida endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime. None...