Word: roland
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...This is a resistance, Bois adds, that is based in part on his early training with the very theorists who occupy the current vogue. As a student at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, Bois received a master's degree and a Ph.D. under the tutelage of Roland Barthes, a French structuralist, and art historian Hubert Damisch...
Meanwhile, the French and Swedish foreign ministers, Roland Dumas and Sten Andersson, flew to the Baltics to prepare for the opening of their new embassies. By the end of the week, more than 30 countries had recognized the states as independent. All three states have advised the United Nations they intend to apply for membership...
...B.C.C.I. supplied Iraq with French-made Roland antiaircraft missile systems and with G-6 mobile artillery units from South Africa...
...supplanting him, ruins the country. Yet even with the events of the past two years before him, Penderecki draws no particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably along. Far more Ubu-like are the sets and costumes by artist Roland Topor, which achieve startling new depths of vulgarity through their persistent evocation of feces and entrails. Is a triumphal arch crowned by a defecating man waving toilet paper black humor, or does it go beyond post-funny and into the realm of merely disgusting...
Though the fiction of a singularly influential and enlightened French "Arab policy" was exploded in the gulf, the result has been a more realistic, selective outreach across the Mediterranean. Mitterrand and Foreign Minister Roland Dumas are now concentrating attention on their Maghreb neighbors. In many French eyes, the North African lands that were once colonial possessions are a time bomb. Arab immigrants have for the most part rejected assimilation, and in future years may become a heavier challenge to the concept of what it means to be French. Surprisingly, residents of foreign origin constitute no greater a share...