Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works worth $2,000,-000. Says Collector Carillo: "In Mexico we seem to have reached our last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco at the top of his list as "the finest of all Mexican contemporary artists, the best in our hemisphere-surely one of our century...
...Semi-Educated. DeVoto's battles began early. The "child of an apostate Mormon and an apostate Catholic," he entered the University of Utah at 17, founded...
Minus the monocle and orchid boutonniere he used to affect even while hunting, semi-retired Edwardian-style Playboy Nubar Gulbenkian,* fiftyish, son of the greatest wheeler-dealer of them all, the late billionaire Five-Percenter Calouste Gulbenkian, showed up in Britain, his old playground (he now lives in Portugal), sipped a spot of liquid warmth before riding off to a hunt in Buckinghamshire...
...Voice of Firestone (Mon. 8:30 p.m., ABC) has a steady popularity as a family show because it offers light, semi-classic music that is sweet and sentimental. Its audio is not helped by a video that has a male model just sitting around while a soprano (Elaine Malbin) rather absentmindedly strokes his cheek and reaches, not always successfully, for high notes...
...affected: semi-autonomous Sicily, which, by letting in private oil companies, is already far ahead of the mainland in developing its oil wealth...