Word: bec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pyrenees from France, where there are 150,000 French Basques. Though generally less restive than their brethren in Spain, many French Basques firmly endorse the drive for independence and rarely miss a chance to let Charles de Gaulle know it. On the day he proclaimed, "Vive le Québec libre!", Basques broke out signs reading "Vive Euzkadi libre!" They also employ as graffiti an equation that at first glance is almost as incomprehensible as their language: "Three plus four equals one." It means that France's three Basque provinces plus the four in Spain should be one nation...
...presence would somehow draw French and English Canadians closer together. While her welcome was warm and cheerful in Ottawa and Prince Edward Island, French Canadians virtually ignored her, and among those who did turn out in Quebec City were the separatists, who shouted rude obscenities, chanted Québec Libre, and fought with billy-swinging policemen...
...know me before he even made a sketch. Then there were two sittings of not more than a half hour each. Before he started to paint, he had pulled out my history. He tried to paint much more than what's on the surface of the canvas." Bec":mann's The King (opposite) is something of a self-portrait, in which self-mockery and egotism blend. "For my money," says Millionaire May, "it's one of the greatest pictures of the 20th century...
...Bath (overleaf) May calls "simply one of the greatest pictures I have ever seen." In Still Life with Candle and Profile the sinister silhouette is Bec'imann's own. The Stormy Sea packs a vast lifting rush of waves into a narrow horizontal, as if it were seen through eyes half closed against salt spray...