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...Caudillo (the Leader)-turns 80 this week, a pinnacle granted few world leaders. The man who has ruled Spain since 1939 planned to celebrate quietly in Madrid's elegant Pardo Palace, where he lives with his wife Carmen Polo de Franco, 72, amid Goya tapestries, Velásquez paintings and liveried servants...
...next, combining the roles of circus freak, spangled elephant and Barnum himself. The performance is tinted with sadness. Dali is undoubtedly the last of the great dandies, but nobody accepts his own belief that he is the last of the great artists, heir to Vermeer and Velásquez. The baroque costume jewelry, the monarchist-Catholic oratory, the worn stock of crutches and soft watches-all have dust on them. Even the trembling antennas of that fabled mustache have apparently ceased to receive or transmit anything...
...latest Nobel laureate to experience his attentions is Dr. Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography. A holograph, made with laser beams, has the property of accurately reproducing an object in three dimensions. "All artists," proclaims Dali, "have been concerned with three-dimensional reality since the time of Velásquez, and in modern times the analytic Cubism of Picasso tried again to capture the three dimensions of Velásquez. Now, with the genius of Gabor, the possibility of a new Renaissance in art has been realized with the use of holography. The doors have been opened for me into...
...house may be new, but its cupboards are rather bare. The images are banal-a Yale basketball player leaping upward "in the process of becoming an angel"; card players at a table, in homage to Cézanne, superimposed on fragments of a Velásquez as background. Dali has simply made use of a different medium for all his old and familiar mannerisms. ·Robert Hughes
Even in relatively stable Mexico, a dozen or so terrorist organizations spasmodically stage bank holdups and political kidnapings. The government's campaign against the guerrillas was aided by the death of Guerrilla Leader Genaro Vásquez Rojas in an auto accident last February. But another leader, Lucio Cabañas, is still free somewhere in the remote Guerrero mountains. He is believed responsible for kidnaping the son of a wealthy coffee farmer last month...