Word: riveras
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Throughout his life, which was flushed with publicity, Diego Rivera was often photographed. He filled the frame--a 300-lb. Silenus in suspenders and open- neck shirt, the liquid eyes bulging at the rival lens. One image shows him feigning sleep. He lies mountainously in the garden of his house in Coyoacan, his head pillowed on the stony side of an eroded pre-Columbian head. He is pretending to be a big baby dozing by his mother, the Mexican past, touching the root of contentment. No other photo so pungently expresses Rivera's idea of his own history...
...Diego Rivera was born a hundred years ago, in 1886, and he died of cancer in 1957: 71 years, not a long life by Picassian standards, but a staggeringly exuberant and productive one. All his attributes as an artist, including his sometimes overweening vulgarity, were cast in a large mold. He became a symbol, the key figure in cultural transactions between North and Central America in the first half of the 20th century. He played his role for Mexico, part ambassador and part genius loci, to the hilt. His energy had a titanic quality: he covered many acres of wall...
...when he did his enormous fresco cycle of Mexican history in the Palacio de Cortes at Cuernavaca, a work that made no bones about his Communist sympathies, his $12,000 fee was paid by Dwight W. Morrow, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. In 1931 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller bought Rivera's sketchbook of the 1928 May Day parade in Moscow...
...they were improperly acquired. The judgments of the Philippine courts would then be presented to American courts, which would be asked to order the transfer of the property to the Philippine government. "It's traditional legal practice for foreign judgments to be given effect in this country," contends Severina Rivera, a Washington-based attorney for the commission...
...Salvadorans who have been displaced by the war, the returnees had subsisted in urban slums or overcrowded refugee camps. By returning home, the people of Tenancingo have become the first refugees to resettle in a war zone without government supervision. Under a plan developed by Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, Tenancingo has become inerme, a place without weapons, where government troops and leftist rebels are permitted to enter but are not supposed to incite hostilities. While both the military and the guerrillas have pledged to honor Rivera's plan, there is no binding agreement. "The plan is going ahead...