Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesson seemed obvious: in art, as elsewhere, imitation is dull sport. The hundreds of suckling surrealists who had aped De Chirico's youthful work had accomplished very little. And when De Chirico himself took to imitating Rubens, and other long-dead masters, such as 17th Century Romantic Salvator Rosa, his own highly personal painting went...
...July 1947, Tom met Jane Clinton-Baker, daughter of Lady Rosa Agnes Clinton-Baker. On Aug. 20, Tom gave Liana further food for thought. "A month ago," he wrote in a letter, "I met another girl with whom I fell in love the moment I saw her." The Maid of Athens promptly flew to England. Tom met her. "How nice to see you, Liana," he said. Liana did not feel that cozy about it. She threatened to kill herself, she threatened to shoot him, and she finally wound up in a nursing home. Meanwhile, Tom Ridgeway married Jane Clinton-Baker...
...Santa Rosa...
...woman at the door would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...
...Namesake. In Mexico City last week, on the eve of the 38th anniversary of the revolution, a flashing-eyed, 18-year-old beauty named Rosa Maria Franco was chosen "Adelita 1948." With rifle belts slung across her shoulders, she led a parade across the Zocalo and was wined & dined at Ciro...