The French cultural bureaucrats were confronted with a disturbing paradox: Rap seemed to thrive without Government money.

Eisenstein is reported to have made the film about Nevsky, a legendary Russian hero, because he wanted to regain favor with Stalin and his cultural bureaucrats.

Mr. Eifman's struggle with the cultural bureaucrats in Leningrad (as St. Petersburg was known then) began soon after he founded his ensemble a quarter-century ago.

More likely, the cultural bureaucrats running the show would rather not risk roiling their patrons with artists most likely to sting.

It reminds us of what short political memories American artists and cultural bureaucrats have.

At the time, 'The Player' started coming together because I saw Griffin as a cultural bureaucrat in a bureaucracy that created entertainment and perpetuated lies.

It took four years, 200 workmen and uncounted confrontations with French cultural bureaucrats to make it habitable.

In May 2006 eight cultural bureaucrats were convicted for negligence and received ten-year prison sentences.

This is the education system, he charges, which is producing the cultural bureaucrats who are turning the national patrimony of France into an amusement park for tourists).

There were no cultural bureaucrats in State-subsidised theatres imposing the Brechtian avant-garde on uncomprehending audiences.