Word: deserts
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Without the return of the Hutu, the Tutsi victory, along with the landscape, will remain empty indeed. "Their country is like a desert," crowed former government official Jean Bosco Barayagwiza before going into hiding. "How do you rule a nation when there is nobody left to govern?" The R.P.F. has begun by choosing as the new Prime Minister Faustin Twangirimungu, a Hutu moderate like many killed alongside the Tutsi during the pogroms. This hardly indicates , a blanket Hutu amnesty: R.P.F. vice chairman Patrick Mazimhaka claims that genocide was "party policy" on the part of the Habyarimana regime. Yet he insists...
...mixing with unemployed young people attending a training program in Norfolk funded by one of his charitable trusts. He was also shown as an intrepid foreign traveler. On camera he projected an awkward charm, both endearing and genuine. In a Bedouin tent on the edge of the Arabian desert, he sipped camel's milk from a plastic cup. In Mexico he picked at a gooey plate of lamb. "I always dread having something like that," he said, "in case it is laced with chilies, which then rather ruins the rest of your...
...photographers while cavorting in a steam bath in Serbia. He has been kicked out of or denied access to nearly half a dozen European countries. He has threatened to restore Russia's imperial borders, annex Alaska, invade Turkey, repartition Poland, give Germany "another Chernobyl," turn Kazakhstan into a "scorched desert" and employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across the Baltics...
...dropped from the endangered-species list. Last week, in a ceremony timed to resonate with the 4th of July holiday, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Mollie Beattie formally proposed that the eagle's status be changed from "endangered" to "threatened" everywhere except in one region of the desert Southwest. At a marshy spot in Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Beattie marked the long-anticipated occasion by releasing a female bald eagle, fittingly named Hope, who had been nursed in captivity after suffering a broken wing. Following a 90-day public-comment period, the eagle can officially come...
...would grow and what would not: how the taste for smoothly curved profile and deep black relief that he got from Amedee Ozenfant's decorative Cubism, for instance, turned into Dali's later fondness for writhing, spookily dark shadows cast by figures on a flat ground-plane, the idealized desert of his paintings. Dali's obsession with Picasso reached a height of imitative flattery with his pastiches of the older painter's massive "classical" women in white fluted dresses. Likewise, when Dali the Surrealist was pupating, there was hardly a trope in his pictures of 1927-28 that didn...