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Then there was the time Cellist Pablo Casals broke up their friendship over Arthur's failure to repay a ?10 loan...
Craig's women are portrayed as cunning, deceitful and expendable. Leave them for a few hours and they feel they have been deserted. Craig likes to drop big names, from Bobby Kennedy to Ingmar Bergman. At one point, who should appear in a Cannes restaurant but Pablo Picasso, "bull-like vitality ... great naked head" and all. Forced to look at Shaw's hero from a painter's perspective, Picasso sees "a lonely fellow human being moving painfully across an empty canvas." More than likely he spotted a slightly stale, rich novelist doodling on a tablecloth...
Brazil's prim, puritanical military government, which last January banned certain erotic drawings by Pablo Picasso as obscene, has moved ahead with its campaign to keep the country pure and clean. In a tough new press-censorship decree, it banned 60 foreign and domestic magazines-including Playboy, Penthouse, Lui and, curiously, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel-because they offended "morality and proper behavior" by exploiting erotic themes. The decree also provided that all magazines circulating in Brazil must henceforth submit copies to police censors to determine whether they conform to government standards. If the journals are not approved...
...Sunday morning Picasso awoke at 11:30, his usual hour, but this time he could not rise from his bed. His wife Jacqueline rushed in and then called for help. At 11:40, before a doctor could get there, Pablo Picasso was dead. Dr. Georges Ranee, who arrived shortly afterward, attributed his death to a heart attack brought on by pulmonary edema, fluid in the lungs...
...Paloma drove to Vauvenargues and placed a large wreath of vivid flowers in the cemetery overlooking the chateau. "That was as close to our fa ther as we could get," Maya said. "It's sad. The whole situation is very delicate." The next day, Paulo's son Pablo, 24, of nearby Golfe-Juan, was reported in serious condition after drinking a bottle of chloric acid. According to his mother (who has long been separated from Paulo), Pablo had been despondent about being kept from seeing his grandfather. Others said he had also been depressed about financial troubles...