Word: ruisseau
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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...
...pastel strokes in faithful detail. Uninitiates might eye Pablo Picasso's Inspiration and find that famed artist's characteristic distortions no more inspiring in cloth than on canvas. But then they could turn with genuine pleasure to Jean Lurçat's bright, graceful Le Ruisseau-a stream of blue and white wandering through a pale green meadow beside great-petaled flowers of red, gold, black and green...
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