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Begin's initiative prompted immediate criticism from astonished governments abroad. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson declared himself "dumbfounded" and charged that the move violated the 1907 Hague Convention that demands respect for local law in occupied territories-an implicit affirmation that sovereignty cannot be transferred in such cases "except in the event of insurmountable difficulties." In his strongest foreign policy statement to date, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called the move "a blow to the peace efforts" in the Middle East...
...featured Rhine maidens frolicking near a hydroelectric dam and Siegfried wearing a dinner jacket. But what Brook has done goes beyond accepted notions of radicalism. Essentially, he has recomposed Bizet's masterpiece, discarding whole sequences, changing the order of arias, even putting the overture near the end. The implicit arrogance of all this does not trouble Brook. "Opera is not a musical contract on paper, something between attorneys," he says. "The whole essence of theater work to me is to regard a score as an indication of what the imagination." The composer had director's in his task...
...spokesman also said that "potentially, it's undeniable that restriction is implicit" in the department's information-seeking. And another department official on the China Desk called the request "a mistake, a routine thing that got carried out a little overzealously; if there's anyone who cares about expanding relations with China, it's this office...
...much of what is now published, produced, painted or composed, Napoleon is exuberantly romantic. Modernism dictates that the artist's "message" be wrapped in puzzles and conundrums. Napoleon is explicit: "From now on I am the French Revolution," Bonaparte declares, and there are no secondary or tertiary meanings implicit in the statement. Symbolism here is not subterfuge; an eagle appears on the screen and that is Napoleon. A flame is superimposed on his angular unmoving face and Napoleon is Prometheus. The film never teaches, and it never explains. Yet it speaks loudly and continuously...
...implicit answer is 'What do you mean...