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...losing more than he thinks he's gaining. He's losing international recognition and he's losing the respect of his people.' MARCEL GRANIER, executive at RCTV, Venezuela's oldest private television station and a frequent critic of President Hugo Chávez, which went off the air on May 27 after Chávez refused to renew its license...
...government programming. RCTV, like the majority of the media, was certainly heavily biased against Chavez during his first years in power. And the continued anti-Chavez line of RCTV's execs is no secret. After telling TIME on Sunday that Chavez was headed "towards a totalitarian regime," RCTV chairman Marcel Granier scoffed at those who "still believe that there is democracy in Venezuela...
...worked closely with the Pope said that loosening rules on the Latin rite has been a long-time personal goal of Ratzinger, who had led what turned out to be failed negotiations in the early 1980s to bring back into the fold the followers of the breakaway French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who have defied the reforms of the Second Vatican Council...
...concealment, distortion and deception techniques begin. But it was art, not military science, that led the way. "Armies realized they could put artists' knowledge of form, perspective and color to use," says James Taylor, historian at the Imperial War Museum. So the dislocations of Cubism (Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp served as camoufleurs) were a huge influence, as were the visual disruptions of Vorticism in the Dazzle patterns applied to Allied ships during World War I. Dazzle made it hard for the enemy to get a fix - a trait that could also help explain the rebellious appeal of camouflage patterns...
...Pasternack is hopeful for the future of art and garbage, citing the past success of Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 work Fountain, which was “essentially a toilet bowl that he found in the garbage. A mass-produced urinal. He put his name on it and it went into a museum...he questioned ‘what exactly...