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Paul Gauguin ended his career on the Paris Bourse in 1883, at the age of 35. His death two decades later, in the cerulean and blood-red land and seascape of the South Pacific, was watched over by honey-colored friends. Once when a Tahitian man named Totefa respectfully told him that he "could do things which other men were incapable of doing," Gauguin rushed to his diary and wrote: "I believe Totefa is the first human being in the world who used such words toward me. It was the language of a savage or of a child...
There beside the whisper of the surf, Oopa, who was once a fried-potato vendor and then a carpenter, roared like a Paris Assemblyman. Under the slogan, "Tahiti for the Tahitians; Frenchmen into the sea!", Oopa's Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People swept last year's elections, and Oopa, 63, became Premier of Polynesia. Oopa accused the French of allowing the islands' copra-and-phosphate economy to stagnate in the face of a population explosion that has doubled the population (to 70,000) in 25 years. Hoping to win greater control over an economy dominated...
Trouble in paradise began in Papeete, capital city of the islands, when a Tahitian politician with the resounding name of Jean-Baptiste Céeran-Jeérusalemy and his governing R.D.P.T. Party (Rassemblement Democratique des Populations Tahitiennes) put forward a bill in the territorial assembly to impose an income tax, and announced a drive to seek independence from France for a new Republic of Tahiti...
Local businessmen, who are mostly Chinese, closed their shops in a strike against the income tax. And a throng of Tahitians who did not want to leave the protective custody of France gathered outside the territorial assembly building in protest. Someone thoughtfully arranged to bring up three truckloads of stones so that the demonstrators did not even have to bend down to find their missiles. Taking aim, the crowd managed to break 57 windows in the assembly building while Tahitian gendarmes tried vainly to recall what the textbooks said about riot control. An official who still retained a dim memory...
...private purchases to the museum's future needs. Over the years Hanna gave the museum 1,075 pieces, ranging from furniture, textiles and glass to such prime paintings as El Greco's Christ on the Cross with Landscape, Degas' Frieze of Dancers, Gauguin's Tahitian-period The Call, Picasso...