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...variety of weighty impediments - including two reclining Marist brothers (one of whom is purportedly Dali). "L'Age d'or" followed soon after, but Buñuel was not able to return to his trademark imagery until the 1950s, as the political climate in the countries he inhabited (Spain and America) made it impossible for him to work again on a personal project. In 1946, Buñuel moved to Mexico, where his work on pedestrian comedies and the great success of his gritty, yet still dreamlike, juvenile delinquent saga "Los Olvidados" (1950) made him a bankable commodity. He proceeded...
...refused to fly; when he disappeared to Spain, as he often did, he went by ship. In 1964 he arrived at the G.O.P. Convention in San Francisco by train without his beloved wife Kit. "We don't feel good traveling on the same train together," he said. Recently, childless and bereft of Kit, he found life less worth living. To paraphrase the poet, "She first deceased ... he for a little tried/ To live without her ... liked it not and died...
...tried to reach across the breach. Bush talked about the pride he and Barbara had in their son, and Clinton told of the pride they deserved to feel. The two men had been seen talking alone, smiling and nodding. Bush was scheduled to leave on a late flight to Spain to go hunting with the King, so he left early. But he came back a few minutes later when told his plane had broken down in the Midwest. It was as if the citizens' house had momentarily cast a spell and was nudging for a reconciliation...
...shadowy intelligence chief is since his ostensible return to Peru. Despite being on the run, Montesinos is believed to command significant loyalty in the military brass, having appointed many of its leading figures to their positions. That's if he's still alive - opposition leader Alejandro Toledo, speaking in Spain at the weekend, speculated that the former intelligence chief, who's been implicated in political bribery and also in a gun-running scandal, may actually have been killed. But nobody's betting on that...
...heart of the art of living. Listen to the bride-to-be discussing table settings and potential banquet halls for her wedding. Look at the young immigrant wiping away a tear at the thought of the langoustines, ripe with roe, prepared by his mother back in Spain. A madeleine evoked Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Imagine what Kellogg's Froot Loops may do. We are what...