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...human happiness, democracy may be all very well; but for the visual arts, nothing beats 4,000 years of rigorous bureaucratic feudalism presided over by a lofty elite of scholars with a divine Emperor on top. Such is the lesson of the Metropolitan Museum's present exhibition, "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei." Normally when those spavined cliches "treasure," "splendor" or "masterpiece" occur in the name of an exhibition, doubt rises: Methinks the museum doth protest too much. Not this time. In terms of sheer quality, this show can claim to be the greatest conspectus...
...obvious reason that we can't read it and so can only admire it, more or less ignorantly, as abstract brush drawing. And yet its range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar...
...diplomats admit openly that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says TIME's Lara Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the election have when the main opposition is not allowed to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' with Zeroual strutting around in the invisible trappings of a fictitious democracy. Zeroual was appointed head of state by a military-dominated committee in January 1994, but he sorely wants to be elected 'by the people...
...that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the poll have when the main opposition, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is not allowed to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' with the incumbent, retired General Liamine Zeroual, strutting around in the invisible trappings of a fictitious democracy. Zeroual was appointed head of state by a military-dominated committee in January 1994, but he sorely wants to be elected 'by the people...
...that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the poll have when the main opposition, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is not allowed to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' with the incumbent, retired General Liamine Zeroual, strutting around in the invisible trappings of a fictitious democracy. Zeroual was appointed head of state by a military-dominated committee in January 1994, but he sorely wants to be elected 'by the people...