The exhibition is heavily skewed towards Picasso and does at times feel like a marketing exercise that seeks to claim the artist as a true Aixois.
The Vatican palace is allowed to send and receive ambassadors as though it were a real country, and seeks to claim membership of a number of international bodies.
So why does the form of religion that seeks to claim the term "Christian" in the political realm have to focus so relentlessly on a "gay conspiracy" – not to mention sexually active singles and the purely evil Muslims?
The almost-wedding scene, where Karl seeks to claim the Princess, is even better, with De Frutos orchestrating a brilliant choreographic homage to Nijinska's beautifully anguished ballet, Les Noces.
WASHINGTON — The official end of America's combat mission in Iraq next week will fulfill the campaign promise that helped vault President Obama to the White House, but it also presents profound risks as he seeks to claim credit without issuing a premature declaration of victory.
Keenly aware of its fictional nature, the ideal type never seeks to claim its validity in terms of a reproduction of or a correspondence with reality.
