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...built in Europe in 14 years. This time, after a heated debate that led to the resignation of the Green party from government, Finland approved the utility's application because of worries about climate change and uncertainties about securing future energy supplies. The party was held in a glass tent on the spot where the core of the new pressurized water reactor is to be installed, and none of the partygoers was happier than Anne Lauvergeon, a former French civil servant who is chief executive of Areva, the French company that won the contract to build the $3.6 billion plant...
...late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms. In New Aleph Sanctury (1963-71) by German-born Mati Klarwein, painted panels crawling with multicolored figures form a small room that glows like stained glass. Richard Lindner, a genuine product of '20s Germany whose style influenced the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968), is represented by one oil painting of a striped-jerseyed rock star with a guitar against a sunburst (Rock-Rock, 1966-67). Psychedelia was supposed to induce a trance-like state with...
...spirit of Dada - and it was always an attitude rather than a coherent school of thought - survived. The Pompidou tries to reinforce this point in the final display space, which includes René Clair's almost coherent 1924 film Entr'acte, and Duchamp's never-quite-finished The Large Glass (also known as The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even), two painted and otherwise embellished panes of glass in a wooden frame. The curators even consider the view of Paris through the room's windows to be part of the show. This denouement is frankly puzzling. The Dadaists would...
...movie does have some genuinely hilarious moments, most of which come from Black’s depictions of the absurdity of L.A. When Harry follows Gay Perry into a holiday party, he gets distracted by the naked contortionists writhing in glass boxes on the dance floor. Elsewhere, in a bar, Harry and his lady love take turns pointing out multi-ethnic look-alikes of famous people (“The bathroom? Oh, it’s over there next to the Filipino Steven Seagal?...
Saddam will sit behind bulletproof glass, before a three-judge tribunal. There will be no jury. Instead of the adversarial model of British and U.S. courts, expect to see the inquisitorial system of France and Egypt. A team of investigative judges gathers facts, levies charges and refers them to the three-judge tribunal, which calls and quizzes witnesses. Saddam's lawyers can suggest names, but they can't call their own witnesses...