Salvador Dalí was a total artist and a flamboyant celebrity. Myles Burke recently published the article "
Salvador Dalí talks about his iconic, 'very aggressive' moustache" on
BBC News, where he explains how he creates his celebrated moustache every day. This article with a short video (1:47) can be accessible to B2+ students, who will come across words like:
playful, bold, an [artistic] statement, bizarre, a dreamlike [image], flamboyantly, lustrous, whiskers, fittingly, a date, depressing, gay, a wax, a [splendid] upturn, to plough on, gravity-defying [facial hair], to droop down, brisk, to be captivated, cartoonishly [waxed], to sport, hirsute, to embody, [carefully] crafted, shamelessly, a logo, to curl, to bedeck, a [visual] cue, to blur [the boundary], eager, stunned, to embalm. Mr. Dalí was a larger-than-life character with a great sense of surrealist humour, as you can see in his appearance as a guest in the TV show "What's my Line? (1962)". This video with Spanish subtitles (9:06) is recommended for B2+ students (C1 for non Spanish-speaking students), who will find rather formal words like: costuming, blindfolded, [to keep] score, folks, self-employed, a performer, a leading [man], misleading, eminence, an exploit, germane [to something], up and down [yes], endeavour, an affiliation, within the compass [of his enjoyment], an all-around [man], to encompass, a dummy, the master of ceremony, to strike upon, a conference, to caricature.
