Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the audience in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House waited & waited for the curtain to rise, they whiled away the time by reading in their programs an apologia-by Surrealist Salvador Dali himself-for the surrealist ballet they were about...
...blowing a gale last week off Brazil's coast. Rain speared down in steel-grey phalanxes. Big, angry combers blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...
Three weeks ago the victorious Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old Hispanic custom of the right of asylum. Unhispanic indeed sounded the humane statement of the Chilean Foreign Office on the matter: the right of asylum is not a matter of politics, simply a humanitarian principle to avoid useless reprisals. Last week in Santiago, Chile let it be known that victory...
...cleverer, far more alluring is the show opened last week by Surrealist Salvador Dali. A writhing plaster castle on the outside, it shrewdly combines surrealism with sex, inside, proves that there is plenty of Broadway method in Dali's madness...
...Lunatic Narcissus" reveals a bare-breasted girl, her face caged with roses, her image multiplied by mirrors. > "The Beach of Gala Salvador" exhibits, against a Dali landscape embellished with exploding giraffes, many a famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming out of the horn; watches flattened out like flabby pancakes; "The Aphrodisiac Vampire," with the head of a tiger and a body studded with pony glasses; "The Ex quisite Corpse," its head and neck a curved umbrella handle, its chest a wooden chest, its thighs made of saucepans, its curved piano...