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If one measure of a community's success is, as I've been told, its ability to bring like minds together, then I must compliment Celebration, Fla., on at least the one count, of giving us a pretext to correspond.
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.
The final step is coming up with a pretext for your decision.
The cartridge blunder became a pretext for avenging other grievances, with troops rallying around the rulers dispossessed by Lapse or Paramountcy.
It was a Cuban minister, after all, who said yesterday that developing nations needed to stick together, because "we produce goods and services with comparative advantages that they [that is, the United States and Europe] are trying to take away under the pretext of so-called labor standards."