Running of the Bulls: described by Hemingway in the novel The Sun Also Rises. He ran with the bulls in 1924. He saw a man gored to death, which made a deep impression on him, acc to sanfermin.com. The event is actually called the Festival of San Fermin.
"Anything goes," is from the witty Cole Porter.
"April is the cruelest month," is from TS Eliot's "The Waste Land." It refers to suicide.
Dripping clocks: surrealist painting by Salvador Dali.
"Blue Nude," is a series of paintings by Henri Matisse.
"Guernica," is Picasso, 1937.
"Rose is a rose is a rose," is novelist and art collector Gertrude Stein.
"The Purple Rose of Cairo," is an award-winning movie from Woody Allen.
The canon -
- the body of ecclesiastical law.
- the body of rules, principles, or standards accepted as axiomatic and universally binding in a field of study or art.
- a fundamental principle or general rule: the canons of good behavior.
- a standard; criterion: the canons of taste.
Josephine Baker and the Jazz Age: a famous dancer and singer from NYC (1906 - 1975) who was successful with Parisian audiences.
Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou, to integrate an American concert hall,[3] and to become a world-famous entertainer.
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