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...batsman, as they trailed 3-1 going into the seventh before capitalizing on some Red Sox honors. With Elliott Rivers on second and Paul Vallone at first. Crimson Captain Bred Bauer laid down a well-placed bunt. As Bauer sped past first the ball sailed over the base, allowing Rivera to score and leaving both Bauer and Vallone in scoring position. Vallone crossed the plate on a wild pitch to tie it, and an Ed Farrell sacrifice fly brought Bauer home to put the Crimson...
...biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-54), is a mesmerizing story of radical art, romantic politics, bizarre loves and physical suffering that raises the question, Why hasn't someone told it all before? Part of the answer is that Kahlo was the wife of Diego Rivera, the muralist and cultural provocateur who overshadowed nearly everybody and everything he touched. He would, in fact, have dominated this book about his wife if Biographer and New York Art Critic Hayden Herrera had not put him in his place...
...Rivera was both Kahlo's hero and her baby, a relationship that endured through their marriage, divorce, remarriage and intervening separations. The 300-lb. painter can be summed up in a series of lingering images: a robust hulk on a scaffold, applying bright Marxist idealizations to the walls of public buildings; a blustery reveler brandishing a revolver to ensure attention; a celebrated philanderer openly displaying his conquests; and a monumental infant seated in a bathtub full of floating toys while Frida lathers his plump breasts...
...exiled Russian revolutionary who died in Mexico shortly after a Stalinist agent put the point of an ice ax through his head. Frida initiated the affair with Trotsky, not because she found "Piochitas" (little goatee) attractive but because she thought the trysts would be the perfect response to Rivera's fling with her sister...
...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...