Word: julio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Rauschenberg (Alexander Calder's sculpture won in 1952). This year, despite a powerful push behind the U.S.'s pop-eyed Roy Lichtenstein, whose work has evolved from hyperintense comic-book panels, the grand international prize in painting went to a relatively unknown kinetic artist from Argentina, Julio Le Pare...
...Marini fled to Paris, incubated his talents with the help of artists like Picasso and Julio González for one year, and then chose Milan as his work place when he returned home to become eventually Italy's most important modern sculptor. Yet his works, for all their modernity and energetic eclecticism, look as if they predated Michelangelo by a thousand years (see color pages...
Last week should have been a big occasion for Julio César Méndez Montenegro. By a vote of 35 to 19, Congress-acting in the absence of an absolute majority after the presidential elections last March-chose Méndez Guatemala's 21st President, to succeed Military Strongman Enrique Peralta on July 1. But if he felt any joy or relief, Méndez was keeping it to himself. Of more concern to him was the unhappy fact that Castro-backed terrorists were up to their old tricks again in his troubled little Caribbean nation...
...exacting standards of Julio Cortázar, a lazy reader is one who expects the author to do all the work. Such a reader assumes that a story will unwind consecutively, rationally, grammatically, before his indolent eyes. The sentences parse, the paragraphs link, the chapters march, good soldiers all, to a dramatically acceptable denouement. So much for the lazy reader. Author Cortázar wants nothing to do with...
Along this bewildering route, the author's meaning must usually be guessed at; nobody's going to catch Julio Cortázar making things too clear. "Sometimes I am convinced," muses one character, "that the triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog." When this character, a Uruguayan woman called La Maga, goes to bed with Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine, they make love in "Gliglish": "Right away she tordled her hurgales, allowing him gently to bring up his orfelunes...