Word: swanning
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...start, Dali was exhibiting one he had not yet mastered. He had spent only three months on it so far, and he figured it would need another four. The "masterpiece-in-progress" was an expert, academic picture of his wife Gala, sitting naked on the air, with a swan...
...Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear new architectures and rocks dans...
...night while everybody is watching Karin dance Swan Lake, Margaret pulls a lever to put out all the lights. This winsome prank opens a trapdoor onstage instead. Karin falls through and injures herself so badly that she can never dance again. How Margaret suffers! But at last she confesses and Karin forgives her, partly because "she's a strange child," partly because "today is today...
...student activities center was unanimously recommended as a Harvard World War II memorial by the Council Extra-Curricular Activities Committee, in a report released yesterday by Thaxter Swan '45, committee chairman...
Forty-year-old Marchand had had a young girl friend and model whose classic head and swan neck he turned into Picassoid portraits-hammered, twisted, bilious. Then one day-so said Parisian rumor-Picasso had taken Marchand's girl for himself, and put her beauty in a classically simple and straightforward etching (TIME, July...