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...Carnegie International (but not the Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been up against an iron phalanx of pro-Marxist critics. Only four years ago die the government finally relent, award him his first official mural commission (TIME, April...
...home city, Barcelona. When Barcelona claimed the paintings, agreeing to pay $56,340 in death duties, Peron's government slapped an embargo on the old masters in Cambo's palatial Buenos Aires residence. Only last year, when diplomatic tempers had reached the boiling point, did Argentina relent...
Certain that M-G-M would eventually relent, Mario refused to be downhearted. Born the same year that Enrico Caruso died (1921), Mario feels that nature intended him as Caruso's replacement. To underline the idea, he has faithfully followed Caruso's taste in black Homburgs and spats. The legacy was further ex plained by Mario to Columnist Earl Wilson: "God gave me my voice as a gift- and I am only the keeper of the voice...
...away: he has a new sense of guilt that makes him flagellate others instead of himself, and an old will to dominate that soon has him trying to upset everyone's plans and destroy everyone's happiness. Only at the end does Paddo-or rather, Playwright Macken-relent: in a most ignominious victory of plot over character, the bully suddenly decides to clear...
Although both sank their gift shots, the Judges didn't relent, even through the last seconds when the Crimson held an 11-point lead. The continuing antagonism was clear from the three personals in the last 45 seconds. The Judges scored on one of these, though, and Leonard Winograd broke through for a layup in the last seconds to narrow the final margin to eight points...