Word: mir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest of a series of baffling thefts. In the last 19 months there have been six major art robberies on the French Riviera alone. Across the Atlantic, Pittsburgh Collector G. David Thompson's offer to pay $100,000 for the return of ten paintings by Picasso, Dufy, Miró and Léger still stands. Art robbery has proved more contagious even than hijacking planes...
...Cuban exiles were also feeling the effects of the shift. The Revolutionary Council of José Miró Cardona, which figureheaded the U.S.-managed Bay of Pigs invasion, was fragmenting in despair. U.S. Government agents disbanded rebel groups clustered around Miami, started sending exiles chafing in idleness off to jobs in distant states. The Justice Department turned an unsympathetic eye on a 100-man band of international "commandos" melodramatically titled "the Intercontinental Penetration Force.'' Led by a hulking (6 ft. 7 in.), bearded American ex-marine who calls himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself...
...biggest seller of all was the Jackie Kennedy cover at inauguration time. Not far behind were the pre-election Nixon and Kennedy covers. the inaugural issue, and the detailed report on the Cuban disaster, with Exile Leader Miró Cardona on the cover...
...Nervous. In five versions of Seated Woman, the woman hardly made an appearance at all. In many canvases the once meticulous Miró had left hairs from his brushes imbedded in the paint. What did all this splatter and splutter mean? Plainly, the new Miró was mad at the world, and he was letting his emotions boil over. "I used crayon," says he of some thin colored lines in one painting, "because it was more nervous, Pam! Pam! Pam! Pam! Like a knife!" Commented the weekly France-Observateur sadly: "Disappointed spirits will conclude that this is not Mir...
...Just how Miró manages to get so roiled up is something of a mystery, for his own life remains as methodical as an engineer's blueprint. He wakes at 5, meditates for a while, and then, in measured steps, proceeds to his white studio, designed by U.S. Architect (and fellow Catalonian) José Luis Sert. There, surrounded by favorite shapes and objects-a rotting rudder, a rusting anchor, a decaying sheet of metal, bits of pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury...