Word: surrealissimo
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...window a mannequin lying on a bed of glowing coals under a stuffed trophy, which the artist described as "the decapitated head and the savage hoofs of a great somnambulist buffalo extenuated by a thousand years of sleep." Working all one night with Bonwit's regular window crew, Surrealissimo Dali finished in time for the store's opening at 9:30 a. m. Then he retired to his hotel...
Into the store to the company lawyer rocketed Salvador Dali, sizzling in Spanish and French. Next thing Bonwit's knew the Surrealissimo was in the window with the bathtub. "Oomph" went the tub as he jerked it from the moorings. "Crash" went Bonwit Teller's beautiful plate-glass window as the small struggling artist and his tub went through it and lit "bang" on the sidewalk...
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