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Word: salvadore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swap El Salvador, a knot on the geological cord joining North and South America, is a one-crop country-coffee forming about 95% of her exports. Since 1935, with the coffee market glutted, she has disposed of her crop largely by barter with Germany, getting textiles, hardware in return. Last week the 13,173-sq. mi. nation, the size of New Jersey and Connecticut, decided she needed airplanes for training purposes, for ferrying army freight over her mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: New Swap | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

That versatile Artist Salvador Dali should be working on a surrealist ballet is hardly surprising. But it was news last week when one of the parts was offered to antic, woolly-wigged Comedian Harpo Marx. The proffered role: "an immobile figure plunged into the depths of total despair, who then emerges from his state of hallucination and goes into paroxysms of the most frantic choreographic delirium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Arty Marx | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Surrealism is partly Spanish in origin and its distinguished leaders include Parisian Spaniards like Joán Miró and Salvador Dali; 2) Artist Hayter went to Spain last year not on his own but at the invitation of the Leftist director general of Fine Arts, José Renau, who encouraged him to paint a score of flaming canvases with such titles as Man-eating Landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War & Art | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, the exhibition gave ample evidence of the continuing fertility of such Surrealists as Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Hans Arp. Painters Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and especially Salvador Dali. That dapper master of mystification was represented not only by the flivver group at the entrance but by paintings ranging from Le grand masturbateur (1929)10 Telephone aphrodisiaque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Super | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...called L'Art Cruel. The usual fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: L'Art Cruel | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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