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...Vote of Confidence. But always, despite the serious intention of talking about economics, that pesky problem of Cuba kept popping up. Arriving in San Jose the day before Kennedy. El Salva dor's President Julio Rivera spoke to his greeters with a grim quip: "Let us first have a minute of silence for me. Castro said I would be dead by now." In his first statement to the Presidents, Kennedy eloquently reiterated the anti-Castro theme: "At the very time that newly independent nations rise in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba have been forcibly compelled to submit...
...Mexico City in 1961 seemed like the usual bombast from angry young painters out to attract as much attention as they could. In big blue capital letters, it blasted just about everything sacred to the Mexican art world. Damned as academismo were slavish and parochial imitations of Diego Rivera's once-revolutionary social realism. Damned as dehumanized decoration were equally slavish imitations of the abstract styles imported from other lands. "We strive," said the manifesto writers, "for an art that communicates in the clearest and most direct way possible our commitment...
...aging (and currently jailed) Communist firebrand David Siqueiros, and he bluntly replied: "For the same reason that the students of Caracas attacked Dictator Pérez Jiménez." Siqueiros, he said, was a "comic dictator with the intolerant habits of a totalitarian politico." He insisted that while Rivera had turned out a few masterworks in his time, he had eventually sunk to producing "assembly-line paintings to fill the bags of American tourists...
...herself, Grace Borgenicht began going around with a crowd of artists in 1947 that included Jimmy Ernst, Gabor Peterdi and Milton Avery. All three joined up with her when she opened her gallery in 1951. To these she has added such stars as Leonard Baskin, Sculptor José de Rivera and, more recently, the veteran Paul Burlin...
training table lies a bloody mess. After 17 years in the ring, that's what's left of Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn). "Look at this eye," the doctor snarls at Mountain's manager (Jackie Gleason). "That's sclerotic damage. A couple of good rights to that eye, you can buy him a tin cup and some pencils. Or maybe some day he'll bang his head on a bathroom door and bleed to death. No more...