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under the false pretext of a humanitarian catastrophe."
Corot was born in 1796, and his 200 th birthday is the pretext for two mesmerizing shows in New York this fall: a wide-ranging retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a more specialized show at the Brooklyn Museum built around Corot's Italian visits.
In Paris, the daily Libération called the pretext for the offensive "dramatically thin" and linked it to the postponement of the impeachment process.
Seven experts in conservation and pathology entered the royal vault in Weimar by night on the pretext that one of the clasps on Goethe's sarcophagus had broken and his remains might deteriorate.
When Tudjman rewrote the Croatian Constitution in 1991 to undermine the rights of Serbs, Milosevic used this as a pretext to invade Croatia, capturing the one-quarter of Croatia inhabited by Serbs.