Word: salvadore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Salvador Dali, a slick painter and a calculating showman, who has made surrealism into a lucrative side show, combines the methods of the old masters and the madness of a slap-happy showoff. Both method and madness were appallingly apparent, as usual, in a new Dali show of eleven recent paintings which opened this week in Manhattan's Bignou Gallery. He did all eleven in just nine months. The paintings were so delicately labored, so ingeniously jumbled, and so elaborately inconsequential that gallery-goers went away wondering how a mustachioed, 52-year-old child could possibly display such professional...
...three old people who lived in the old mansion at Republica del Salvador, No. 66, never admitted visitors, had no servants. Brother Angel Villar Lledias, stooped and 70, did the marketing. Sister Maria, somber and 58, cooked. Brother Miguel, 66, was blind. Sometimes the three trailed over to shabby El Principal for lunch, left...
...Central America, where a U.S. ambassadorial sneeze may start a revolt at any time, democracy and dictatorship contested across national borders. Costa Rica is a first-class democracy; El Salvador and Guatemala are struggling with the problem of embryo democracy. Nicaragua and Honduras are still outright dictatorships...
...Salvador Dali, who will try anything once and usually does, tried designing the well-dressed woman of 2045. She looked a little like a scarecrow with a fatal fascination for crows, a little like a collision of paper pinwheels (see cut). Her accessories included a big crutch with a zipper (to serve as a handbag, also as spiritual and moral support) and a little crutch with strings (to lift the skirt...
Most striking set: a dream sequence designed by Surrealist Salvador Dali. Notable Hitchcock trademark: a comic bit part (Wallace Ford as a traveling salesman from Pittsburgh) whose laconic leering is almost as memorable as the two old-school cricketers of Night Train and The Lady Vanishes...