Word: rine
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Haughty decrees are one of the French state's specialties. In a proclamation issued in April 1999, Minister for Culture Cathérine Trautmann announced her intention to create a new exhibition space in Paris for young artists - modeled on existing centers in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York - in an attempt to revive the French capital's flagging reputation on the international contemporary art circuit. This delicate mission was entrusted to Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, a pair of maverick art critics and exhibition curators who wowed the faceless bureaucrats at the Culture Ministry with...
...speech last week on the general theme of The Evils of the West, Mahathir accused the English-speaking world of forcing its language on the East?and ridiculed Australians for speaking that language so abysmally. He worked up his best Oz accent to quote Henry Higgins' famous tutorial: "The rine in Spine fell minely on the pline...
...possible to see something essentially American that one cannot see elsewhere. Here all the music and shadows of the country flow together. Here thrives the figure of the adorable con artist, like Harlem's Mr. Rinehart in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, whose "world was possibility." He was "Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the lover and Rine the Reverend." His multiple identities occupied "a world without borders...where Rine the rascal was at home...