Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the Curtain. At Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art, the show was all Salvador Dali. To please his favorite contemporary artist, Hartford has filled his museum from top to bottom with 375 items of Dali's hitand-miss genius. But it was Dali himself who won best-of-show at a gala black-tie lecture attended by critics, socialites and an ocelot on a leash. Sporting his silver-handled cane, Dali held the audience in breathless amusement as he dashed off a sketch of a horseman to the tempo of world-renowned Guitarist Manitas de Plata...
...that Dali had skimped on art for the occasion. On view were his latest works, featuring a spatterdash Homage to Meissonier, which most certainly would not please Meissonier, a 19th century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles. Also from 1965's crop: Salvador Dali in the Act of Painting Gala in the Apotheosis of the Dollar in Which You Can See on the Left Marcel Duchamp Masquerading as Louis XIV Behind a Vermeerian Cur tain Which Actually Is the Invisible Face but Monumental of Hermes by Praxiteles. It covers quite a bit of art history...
...United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization. In the 13 Latin American countries on which the FAO keeps figures, a minimum intake of 2,200 calories a day is met in only eight-Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay. In the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala, the average is fewer than 2,200 calories per day v. a U.S. average of 3,100. More disturbing still, Latin America's food production is slipping behind its population growth-to the point where this year's projected per capita production will be 11% less...
...subversion through existing orthodox Communist parties-with a few notable exceptions, such as in Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala. This now gives the Russians better control of purse strings and operating methods. The Havana meeting also laid out a list of likely present and future targets. Among them: Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Paraguay and British Guiana...
...sculpture that caused the most goggling was a copy of the one that most Greeks thought they knew best the Louvre's Venus de Milo. This ver sion, however, was by Spain's Salvador Dali, so of course there was a difference. Dali had put drawers on her. Here and there he had cut out sections and turned them into sliding compartments. One visitor, proceeding on the premise that drawers are for opening, pulled out Venus' forehead, breasts and stomach before a horrified guard could stop...