Word: oilcloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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City of God. At dusk, in the Algiers suburb of Le Ruisseau, Moslem patrons in the Café de l'Espérance looked up from their mint tea and coffee as Europeans sped by. From one car, machine-gun bullets swept the oilcloth tables, from the other a hand grenade was lobbed into the doorway. Five Moslem men and a child died instantly; 26 others sprawled wounded among the tumbled chairs. Revenge-seeking Moslem crowds raged into the streets, stoning passing cars. Three autos were halted, their European drivers dragged out and beaten to death...
...wood, spires, brush and rod plus a graceful fivesome of wheels by Ettore Colla. kookie, pedigree. One ancestor is Picasso, who in 1912 painted a cubist picture of ordinary objects, threw in the letters J O U (to indicate journal, and hence day-to-day experience), pasted on some oilcloth with a chair-cane pattern, and finally framed the whole thing with a piece of rope. Picasso was creating no ordinary still life: he arranged his painted objects just as the later assemblers were to arrange their actual objects-not as nature would have them, but in accordance with...