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...hosts with rapid-fire questions and spontaneous comments. At the University of Geneva, Raisa, a Ph.D. in Marxism-Leninism who has lectured in Communist theory at Moscow State University, startled the rector by engaging him in a conversation about the relationship between philosophy and physics. At a clock museum, she jokingly inquired whether one ceremonial item was a Swiss watch; the director sheepishly admitted it was French. Raisa Gorbachev also demonstrated a beguiling bilingualism. Fingering a jeweled antique timepiece, she displayed it to U.S. television camera crews and warbled in accented English...
...more practical. But the most important change is that we can reach our gun much more quickly." Some older members of the force, however, lament the passing of a national symbol. "For most people, the image of the French policeman is the kepi," said the curator of the police museum at the Paris Prefecture. "Now all that has disappeared...
...Galleries The Museum of Online Museums www.coudal.com/moom.php This elegantly-designed portal links to established museum and gallery sites such as those run by the Museum of Modern Art, The Bauhaus Archive and The Art Institute of Chicago. It will also introduce you to countless other online collections, from Van Gogh's letters to Chinese postage stamps to Manhole Covers of the World. For more, go to the MoOM Annex...
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is among the world's most reproduced images. So when one of his original versions was stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum last August, along with his Madonna, the heist left art lovers as anguished as The Scream's subject. After closing for nine months, the museum reopened this summer with tighter security and a stirring new exhibit of works by the tormented Norwegian...
...ller-Westermann assembled most of the exhibit's 150 oils, watercolors and graphic works from the Munch Museum's own vast collection, and added items from private collections and Stockholm's Moderna Museet, where she is the head of international art. Together the works form a powerful-and often uncomfortable-record of six decades of Munch's explorations of pain and troubled sexuality...