Word: claire
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...1920s: Age of the Metropolis," which has been packing the public into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through the summer and will continue until Nov. 10. How do you put a zeitgeist in a box, albeit a box the size of a museum? Led by Jean Clair, the director of the Musee Picasso in Paris, six curators have set out to raise and question the ghosts of the queen cities of Modernism: Paris, Berlin and New York -- with detours to London, Weimar (for the Bauhaus), Cologne (for Dada) and Moscow (for Constructivism) -- in the decade between...
...catalog is massive, with 23 essays by various hands -- a long symposium. The '20s, Clair points out, were the first "name" decade in cultural history. In an older and slower-changing Europe, cultural periods were identified with long reigns -- the age of Pericles, Louis XIV. But now, in a time of fantastically accelerated communications and stylistic shifts, what Clair calls "the tyranny of the short term" begins: rapid identifiable packaging in culture...
Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh then faced a difficult choice. He could either prosecute North all over again or let the matter drop. Walsh chose to write North off and concentrate on prosecuting Clair George, the CIA's former chief of covert operations, who was indicted three weeks ago for lying or obstruction during a series of investigations into the Iran-contra affair. Pronouncing himself "totally exonerated," North declared, "I've had my last hearing...
Javerbaum and Rossetti began crafting the play last April. They completed it at the end of the summer, with advice from Hasty Pudding Theatricals President Richard M. Claflin '92 and Richard St. Clair '93, who is vice president of the cast...
Fiers' testimony led to the indictment two weeks ago of his boss, Clair George, the CIA's former chief of covert operations. In a federal courtroom last week George pleaded innocent to the 10-count felony indictment, which alleges that he lied to three congressional committees and to the grand jury that Walsh convened to probe the Iran-contra scandal. If convicted on all counts, George faces up to 50 years in prison...