Word: squez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threatened not only by failing health but by the Iranian government's continuing efforts to extradite him for trial. Last week a French attorney representing the Tehran regime flew to Panama with a 450-page demand for the Shah's extradition. According to Juan Materno Vásquez, a former Panamanian Supreme Court Justice who is Iran's counsel in Panama, the law requires the Shah's arrest as soon as the document is filed at the Foreign Ministry. Although the prospect of arrest seemed unlikely, the Panamanian government clearly regarded the ailing monarch...
...lounge lizard whose tiny, enameled visions helped create one of the extreme moments of dandyist revolt and modernist disgust. But today the only interesting thing about Dali is the obsessive grip of his pose. He has convinced a public that could hardly tell a Vermeer from a Velásquez that he is the spiritual heir to both painters. And he has done so, not through art but by the diffusion of small anecdotes. Everything is calculated, literally down to the last hair: even his mustache is lifted from Velásquez's portraits of Philip...