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Particularly trenchant criticism was reserved for the Level 3 hang of large-scale 20th-century paintings and sculptures. A “fiasco . . . flatly dreadful,'' wrote Knight in the LA Times — and he was not a lone voice. Elliot Bostwick Davis, head of the ...

Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images After many frustrations, a belligerent Catholic and a trenchant atheist are seeking to settle their quarrel at sword point. An opportunity quite literally dawns on them. "The sunrise, which was broadening over the sea ...

MUSIC BOX FILMS It's in the opening minutes of "Potiche," when a tracksuit-clad Catherine Deneuve happens upon a pair of rabbits in flagrante delicto, that you're pretty sure the film is not going to be a trenchant exploration of gender politics in the ...

wrote a trenchant and discerning letter to Inspector General Patrick O'Carroll, regarding concerns about administrative abuse in the disability benefits program. The Senators suspect that the SSDI program may be wielding disability benefits as an ...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been the subject of trenchant criticism for its lack of expertise on mergers and acquisitions. CCI's capacity, or the lack thereof, has been manifest in past draft versions of merger control regulations. ...


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