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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 London, the Times ran a hard-line editorial saying that "it will not be enough this time for fire-power to be marshalled and then abandoned on some diplomatic pretext.
Several members of the French Parliament used Kenneth Starr as a pretext to protest a proposed increase in the independence of public prosecutors in France.
The cartridge blunder became a pretext for avenging other grievances, with troops rallying around the rulers dispossessed by Lapse or Paramountcy.
Conservative judges, Schultz argues, have used sexual harassment law as a pretext for preserving "women's virtue."