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In 2004, after another heated national debate, France banned headscarves and all conspicuous religious symbols from state schools.
All conspicuous signs of religious affiliation, including Islamic headscarves, were banned from French state schools in 2004.
To the naked eye it looked like a star of the first magnitude seen through a haze; the tail was visible, but not at all conspicuous.
The law outlaws the wearing in state schools of all conspicuous signs of faith but is considered to be aimed at Muslim girls' headgear.
Without specifically mentioning the new French law that bans all "conspicuous" signs of religion, including head scarves, Mr. Chirac said: "France is a land of tolerance.
For him, painting seemed to be an extension of personal flair, an exercise in controlled excess, and, like all conspicuous virtuosity, a self-justifying pleasure.
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It was the perfect automotive statement for the 60's, a car that proclaimed disdain for the fins, planned obsolescence and, in general, all the conspicuous consumption of middle-class America.
Played absolutely straight, and no doubt deriving from an exchange that the author himself had overhead in similar circumstances, this seems to show Waugh sympathising with another social group forced to deal with a collapse in traditional values, of which the Bright Young People were an all too conspicuous symbol.
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