Word: lix
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...complex pattern of leaves and grass like botanical illustrations come alive. The soaking rain is indicated by subtle transparent streaks. When you recover from the dramatic impact, you can see how the painting has been carefully planned and built up in layers. Franco-Swiss painter Félix Vallotton wrote that it "ought not to be missed; it's the alpha and omega of painting," though he couldn't resist adding the words "childlike naiveté," which would so often be used to undervalue the artist. Rousseau was never in any doubt about his own talent. Tate Modern curator Frances...
...committee of Tanzania's sole political party, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party. He will run unopposed in popular elections scheduled for this week. Meanwhile, in other parts of Africa, voters in the Ivory Coast (pop. 10 million) are expected this week to endorse 80-year-old Félix Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million), however, opposition politicians continue to allege fraud in the recent balloting that President Samuel K. Doe, a former army sergeant who first came to power in a 1980 coup, says gave...
...organization's 55-year history, brought total membership to 26. Catching Up with ETA FRANCE French police, in conjunction with the Spanish Civil Guard, arrested three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA. Officers detained Félix Ignacio Esparza Luri - who acting Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said was ETA's logistics chief - in the southwestern city of Dax . Former ETA leader Félix Alberto López de la Calle, who had been on the run since escaping house arrest in November 2000, was apprehended in the western town of Angoulême, along with suspected...
...laborers from French-speaking Mali and Burkina Faso and Anglophone Ghana and Nigeria. Millions of new arrivals helped make Abidjan, the commercial capital, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan cities. For many years even the term refugee was considered dirty because, in the words of founding President Félix Houphou?t-Boigny, citizens of neighboring African countries should be welcomed as "brothers." Not anymore. Today Ivorian society is split along ethnic lines and teeters on the edge of civil war. Three weeks ago, a group of disgruntled soldiers mutinied after being demobilized. The revolt quickly turned to open conflict between...