Word: powers
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...most formidable biographer, Ian Gibson. It's a perfect title, because it drives home two nails at once. First, lovers of modernism have long regarded Dali (1904-1989), the obsessive and boasting narcissist from Catalonia, as a sort of mock-deranged but authentically disgraceful relative. Few could doubt the power and originality of his early work--up to, say, the Spanish Civil War. Equally, few would give the least credence to the recycling of old themes that he did, mainly for the American market, in the 1940s and '50s, or to the weird, pompous, huge and minutely detailed reflections...
...vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali's talent was "the precise opposite of those qualities which make a painter." But without the power granted by illusion to overturn our sense of the world's plain factuality, his contribution to 20th century culture would have been slight...
...absolutes." Dali collaborated with Bunuel on two of the underground classics of 20th century film, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) and L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age); he was closer to cinema than any other painter of his day, partly because he was obsessed by the power of cinema to make dreams immediate...
...those required to be a good President. Later, TPOS switched their focus to the wearying length of the primary season, which stretched from February through June. This year, as the system became increasingly front loaded, the complaint was that the big states would be shut out, giving even more power to tiny, unrepresentative states like Iowa and New Hampshire...
Spread the power geographically. After New Hampshire, the G.O.P. calendar gave half a dozen states a voice. They included bastions of Southern conservatism (Virginia and South Carolina), Midwest industrialism (Michigan), the Sun Belt and Pacific Northwest (Arizona and Washington State). Even North Dakota had a voice, however muted by massive indifference...