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...face is something else; the exquisite bone structure and the fine, flawless skin suggest an antique doll. But so do the faces of other girls. It is the immense, luminous eyes that make her unique, almost unearthly, like someone not born but drawn?perhaps by her old friend Salvador Dali, who calls her "a black moonchild, like Lilith. Her sex is not here," he insists, pointing to his groin, "but in the head, like a wound in the middle of the forehead." To Actress Shirley MacLaine she is "all turned in and vulnerable, a child with a highly energetic brain...
...DALI by Salvador Dali with Max Gerard. 232 pages. Abrams...
However, two fine shorts run the first forty-five minutes at the Brattle, and might alone be worth the price. Both are art-house standards, and worthily so. Luis Bunuel's first film, Un Chien Andalou (a 1928 collaboration with artist-entrepreneur Salvador Dali), will either fascinate or frustrate with its free-association stream of symbols. (If you get completely lost in these fifteen unusual minutes, just remember violence symbolizes sex, the dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most...
...notable names, there was no end: Umberto, ex-King of Italy; Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...
...Taylor raises the specter of genetic warfare-one nation permanently weakening the people of another by infecting them with potent lab-made viruses carrying damaging hereditary material. Experiments have already shown that viral infections can make fruit flies fatally sensitive to such ordinary substances as carbon dioxide. M.I.T. Bacteriologist Salvador Luria speculates that some day a diabolical individual may be able to concoct a virus that renders men equally susceptible to specific substances. Then, says Luria, he could threaten to release the material unless the world did his bidding...