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Flamboyant Minister Jack Lang draws mixed reviews
Such spectaculars have become a hallmark of France's lavish new investment in the arts, and the personal signature of Mitterrand's flamboyant and popular Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, 43.* Dapper in his close-cut suits, possessed of boyish good looks and dark curls that seem to stir women, Lang has ambitious plans for the arts in Socialist France. "Our goal," he says, "is to transform all of France into a cultural work site." The transformation of the budget has been dramatic. In 1981, under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Ministry of Culture...
Whatever the merits of Lang's efforts, they have certainly been visible-and audible. Last year, for example, he decided that the French should mark the summer solstice with a national "musical festival" in which everyone would simultaneously pluck, pound, tingle and bow musical instruments as church bells rang and neighborhood salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump...
...looking at the listings, wondering what they should see. In the past two years alone there has been a 41% increase in box-office receipts, and this year's receipts will total more than $600 million. Even President François Mitterrand, according to his Culture Minister, Jack Lang, manages to see at least two films a week...
...reporting," the documentation of how teachers spend their time while receiving federal funds. Many researchers argue that they cannot assign precise percentages to the time they spend in the classroom, lab or office. Last March, Yale declined a $30,000 federal grant because its proposed recipient, Mathematics Professor Serge Lang, would not prepare or sign an effort report, although he would certify that the money had been properly spent...