Word: surrealistes
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...program is augmented by a fatuous short, Dances in Spain. High-decibel castanets, surrealist sets with real tinsel trees, effeminate gypsies chasing Tinkerbellesque points of light--these, one is led to conclude, are the cultural outpourings of Franco Spain. Uninspired photography alternates with extraneous quotations by Garcia Lorca. An unfortunate program--but don't miss the music between the showings. The 1812 Overture has gone forever; and the Brattle's all new Altec-Lansing Hi-Fidelity Sound System is devoted to reproducing the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli. They're restful and reassuring...
...There was never less cause for a wake, but Manhattan's El Morocco closed down (it opens again next week, in a new spot two blocks east), and the gilded popinjays of two worlds turned up to keen. Surrealist Salvador Dali was there in a vest that could have been made by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, chatting with Mrs. Hugh ("Chic Rosie") Chisholm. Toots Shor made a ground swell on the dance floor. The usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey...
...Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...
...doom and eternal sadness. The great initial letter illuminating title pages may contain a universe-birds, serpents, angels, men and monsters, each with their special place in the grand design. And within the text, the tiniest capital-the D in Dixerunt, the S in Sed -often turns into a surrealist creature with minuscule arms, tiny feet, and one great bulging...
...TRIAL BEGINS, by Abram Tertz. Smuggled out of Russia, author unknown, this short novel moves with surgical precision through the surrealist world of Soviet prison camps and the larger reservation that is Communist society. At one end of the spectrum stands the conditioned Soviet organization man, at the other the disillusioned idealists who wonder whatever happened to their dream...