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Word: fini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical still life complete with pink fish, got an offer of 2,000,000 francs ($5,000) for it. Cocteau drew a doodle, surrounded it with blue blobs. Tube-Squirter Georges Mathieu held himself down, produced only some wispy black lines and fuchsia smears. Oldtime Surrealist Léonor Fini turned her refrigerator into a Chinese lacquer box decorated with stalking cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ice Cubism | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...magnificent, but not war. At 0150, little more than half an hour later, the Charge of the Demi-Brigade was over, and very few men still lived. Isabelle radioed the Drench planes: "Breakout failed. We must break communications with you. We are going to blow up everything. Fini. Repeat. Fini." The C-47s were rocked by the shock waves from exploding Isabelle. "They were enormous explosions," said one pilot later, sadly. And the Red radio crowed:'"All the enemy troops who tried to break out were annihilated. All fighting has now ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Dienbienphu | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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