Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which was organized secretly and carried out with military precision, will be followed by more arrests as they question those in custody and pursue the leads laid out by Buscetta in his statement. U.S. officials are equally encouraged. "This is truly a historic occasion," said U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, "because this is the first tune that there has been an arrangement of this kind developed between two countries that has been made up of policy-level officials who have the authority to make decisions...
...weeks that a Libyan cargo ship, the Ghat, had crisscrossed the waterway just before the explosions began on July 9. Soon after, it was noted that mines had exploded in both the southbound and northbound shipping lanes of the Red Sea, in waters that the Ghat had traveled. Later, French officials who inspected the ship at Marseilles ascertained that its rear loading dock appeared to have been lowered at sea and damaged by waves. Finally, British experts who examined an unexploded mine reported that it was an "ultrasophisticated" device made by the Soviet Union, one of Libya's primary...
...season, " 'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern." (Primitivism, for MOMA's purposes, means the use Western artists made of tribal works; it does not denote the art itself, which, from "ethnic art" to the disastrous French "art negre," is bedeviled by a whole vocabulary of more or less racist condescension.) The exhibition is large, though not exhausting-218 tribal objects from Africa, North America and the Pacific playing counterpoint to 147 modern ones. In organizing the show, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, William Rubin...
...wrote incessantly about being a primitive man-a condition he identified with that of an artist, a mind instinctively coupled to spirits, ancestors and myths. This defined his importance to modernist primitivism. But his work treated tribalism as spectacle, like the imported "native" villages and trophy walls featured in French colonial exhibitions...
...French technological thriller