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...special envoy to New Caledonia arrived in the French Pacific territory last week to be welcomed by an honor guard of French soldiers. But the ceremonial greeting was deceptive. Heavily armed French troops stood guard and were positioned in the nearby bush. Commissioner Edgard Pisani, 66, had been sent from Paris to try to quell the violence that by week's end had left twelve people dead and about a dozen others injured in the island territory 750 miles east of Australia, which was annexed by France in 1853. Pisani's mission is also to find a solution...
...songs by David Chase are uniformly tuneful and sturdily orchestrated enough to carry the audience over the weak spots in the lyrics. Another help is the able choreography by Karen Maria Pisani. Watching those exemplary pelvic thrusts really passes the time while you're waiting for the inevitable "wives" to rhyme with "lives," and the dancers always deliver--although, truth be told, real go-go girls wouldn't bump into their own breasts quite so often...
...latest in the Guggenheim's discursive series of "sample shows" of the current art of different nations. It covers the work of seven artists: three painters (Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Nino Longobardi), two sculptors (Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio) and two conceptual/per formance artists (Luigi Ontani and Vettor Pisani). Most of these men are in their 30s, and Pisani, the oldest...
Waldman-a writer prone to detect the Eleusinian mysteries at the bottom of every rabbit hole-interprets as a recovery of myth. All the work is extremely knowing. Its images, from Pisani's impenetrably hermetic Rosicrucian allegories to Ontani's pale face photographed as Dante Alighieri, in red hood and laurel wreath, all hang suspended in double or even triple sets of quotation marks. One can have quite a lot of pick-the-reference fun in this show without getting much in the way of aesthetic thrills...
...awarded a Ph.D. in parapsychology by the University of California at Berkeley. It is believed to be the first doctorate in parapsychology ever granted by an accredited university in the U.S. The degree has also stirred considerable campus controversy, which Mishlove describes as "irrational resistance." Berkeley Statistics Expert Robert Pisani has faulted Mishlove's skill in experimental reasoning. Mishlove's supporters argue that his thesis deals adequately with the history and philosophy of parapsychology, but even they agree that his mastery of experimental research techniques was questionable. Even so, the university's academic senate approved the degree...