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After 15 years of almost uninterrupted superlative performance--which not even the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps could seriously slow down--it's almost impossible to remember how close Disney was to being dismantled in the early 1980s.
What may have been the larger philosophical questions behind these contretemps?
The contretemps comes just after the two countries re-established diplomatic relations.
Two interesting fallacies are debunked by this little contretemps.
Until curators and critics manage to convince the great unwashed that beauty and skill are irrelevant (or even antagonistic) to art, we will have these contretemps every year or two.