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Picasso. The last name alone is enough to sum up 20th century art. The Spanish-born painter went through several stages of development, each of which outstripped the lifetime output of other artists. His creative force was fierce and incomparable. The final assessment of him came only when an enormous retrospective exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 made it possible for the first time to see the myriad elements of his work all together and in perspective. He had been dead seven years, but the Museum of Modern Art's splendid show was, as much as any battlefront communiqu...
...February 1939, when a Spanish-born artist named Pablo Picasso first appeared on TIME's cover, the accompanying story took note of his controversial celebrity: "For 30 years ... the very name of Picasso has been a symbol of irresponsibility to the old, of audacity to the young. To millions of solid citizens it has been one of the two things they know about modern art-the other being that they don't like it." How times, and tastes, have changed. Every day for the next four months, 8,000 "solid citizens," clutching coveted tickets, will stream through...
...contrast, the U.S. Ambassador, Spanish-born Diego Asencio, in his own daily phone calls to U.S. officials was reported to be maintaining steady nerves and preparing for a long siege. One grim alternative, of course, was an armed assault on the embassy. But, as one antiterrorist specialist on the scene warned, "that could be very, very bloody...
...women, remained in full control of the compound they seized almost two weeks ago in a gunfight during an Independence Day reception given by the Dominican Ambassador. They had a bonanza of prisoners: more than a score of diplomats from 18 countries, including the papal nuncio; Washington's respected Spanish-born envoy, Diego Asencio, 48, and 13 other ambassadors...
...kicked a soccer ball outside the gates of the Dominican Republic's embassy in Bogota, Colombia. Inside the compound, Ambassador Diogenes Mallol was entertaining fellow members of the diplomatic corps in celebration of his country's independence day. Around noon, U.S. Ambassador Diego C. Asencio, 48, a Spanish-born career diplomat, said his farewells. Just as he was moving toward his armored Chrysler Imperial limousine, the soccer players pulled automatic weapons from their gym bags and blasted their way through the embassy gates. After a two-hour gun battle with police and bodyguards, the bogus athletes were masters...