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Unspeakably miserable Mexican painter Frida Kahlo flashed a rare smile yesterday after her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, tripped over a bucket of turpentine and ripped his pants.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was moderately amusing,\u201d Kahlo said, resuming her usual expression of fierce melancholy only moments after losing her composure and turning up the corners of her lips slightly.<\/p>\n
Kahlo, whose career has been shaped by her unwillingness to show any emotion other than distress as well as her insistence on painting unattractive \u201cselfies\u201d of her unibrow, rarely smiles and plans to pout despondently for the next three weeks in order to make up for the lapse.<\/p>\n
Witnesses state that Rivera fell comically over a large bucket of turpentine Kahlo had spitefully planted behind him and landed on his face, ripping his only pair of overalls. One snickering woman stated, \u201cRivera\u2019s obesity added to the humor of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rivera will paint five giant Communist murals in public spaces over the next year in order to replace his overalls, much to the dismay of government officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill somebody please clothe that guy in the meantime?\u201d one anonymous official sasked, glancing worriedly at Rivera\u2019s sagging backside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Maya Handa Feb. 4, 2013 Unspeakably miserable Mexican painter Frida Kahlo flashed a rare smile yesterday after her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, tripped over a bucket of turpentine and ripped his pants. \u201cThat was moderately amusing,\u201d Kahlo said, resuming her usual expression of fierce melancholy only moments after losing her composure and turning up the corners of her lips slightly. Kahlo, whose career has been shaped by her unwillingness to show any emotion other than distress as well as her insistence on painting unattractive \u201cselfies\u201d of her unibrow, rarely smiles and plans to pout despondently for the next three weeks in order to make up for the lapse. Witnesses state that Rivera fell comically over a large bucket of turpentine Kahlo had spitefully planted behind him and landed on his face, ripping his only pair of overalls. One snickering woman stated, \u201cRivera\u2019s obesity added to the humor of the situation.\u201d Rivera will paint five giant Communist murals in public spaces over the next year in order to replace his overalls, much to the dismay of government officials. \u201cWill somebody please clothe that guy in the meantime?\u201d one anonymous official sasked, glancing worriedly at Rivera\u2019s sagging backside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}