Word: bonvines
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...Brandish ing their wormy palettes, these venerable shades mock the belief in linear progress that was once a byword of modernism. If anyone in 1960 had dared suggest that dozens of moldering eminences from the salons and academies of preimpressionist France, forgotten men like Jean-Pierre Alexandre Antigna, Frangois Bonvin, Joseph Bail or Alphonse Legros, would some day be in the museums again and become the subject of excited scholarly debate, he would have been thought not merely perverse but plain...
...with Trujillo. Though no formal charges were placed against Hommel, Finance Minister Roger Bonvin said that "it is possible to suspect that the president of the Banking Commission had violated the duties of his office...
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