Word: koklova
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Cocteau's milieu absorbed him, and he became a social lion, resplendent in dinner jacket and red sash, surrounded by titled groupies. During this "bourgeois" phase of Picasso's life, he made a disastrous marriage to one of Diaghilev's dancers, a Russian girl named Olga Koklova. Picasso, as several of "his" women have made clear, was never an easy man to live with. As he put it bluntly to his later mistress Françoise Gilot, women are for him "either goddesses or doormats." (Picasso, not Mailer, is the century's monument of narcissism...