Word: marcel
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...Canada, Britain, West Germany and Spain also responded to the call, sending money and tons of medical and food supplies. Cameroonian officials, as unsettled by the onslaught of relief aid as by the crisis itself, quickly set up a national disaster committee. "Our first priority," announced Committee Chairman Jean Marcel Mengueme, "is to set our priorities...
Only hours later in Paris, a bomb exploded in a police annex on the Quai de Gesvres, instantly killing Chief Inspector Marcel Basdevant, 54, and wounding 22 police employees. The bombing was the work of Action Directe, a French terrorist band that trumpeted an alliance with West Germany's RAF last year...
...centerpiece of the 1986 Biennale is called "Art and Alchemy." It was curated (if that is the word) by Arturo Schwarz, an Italian art dealer whose purplish prose has long been one of the hazards of Marcel Duchamp scholarship. Alchemy sought to change base metals into gold and silver. More broadly, it embraced astrology and occult religion, being founded on the picture of a fourelement universe (air, water, fire and earth) proposed by Empedocles in the 5th century B.C. There was an early link between alchemy, technology and art, since ancient glassblowers and metalworkers were always trying to make base...
Most of the blame for Haiti's economic straits can be placed directly on Duvalier. Finance Minister Marcel Leger disclosed earlier this month that the ex-President-for-Life had skimmed off $1 from the price of every sack of flour that was milled in Haiti. Annual average production amounted to 2.5 million sacks. The Duvalier family had also demanded a 50 cents "tithe" on every sack of cement that was sold. Managers of state monopolies in the sugar and cooking-oil industries have admitted to kicking back money over the years, resulting in higher prices for staple commodities...
...builds a layer of frustration into the image: it seems perverse to take objects that are only, or mainly, of scientific interest and handle them in a way so calculated to frustrate scientific curiosity. The dandy's thumbprint lies lightly on this show, a sign that both Johns and Marcel Duchamp have been there before, one with his puzzling equivocations between things painted and things named, the other with his mock- scientific glosses. But this is no bad paternity for an artist to have, and the slightly skittish intelligence of Winters' paintings is bound to appeal to those sated...