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...fairness, though these are good Picassos they are not among the best. Why, is a question not easy to answer. Their color could not be improved. Their handling of shapes is as fine as anyone might hope. In theory everything is au juste. In practice, from afar, the two paintings are exciting and of the highest caliber. Yet, on successive viewings they lose impact where the Cezannes and earlier Picassos get better. The two still-lifes become vulnerable to the charge that they are more decorative than substantial...
...From afar, the little guy continued, the Arm of that great essence might be a stupendous cluster of stars viewed against the sleek back of the blank universe, but in the armpit was Elysium...
...perpetuate his own power rather than strength to carry out the economic and social transformation of his country. He is no man of the people, but prefers to keep the crowd at balcony distance. A remote and shining figure, a man of photographs and broadcasts, he mesmerizes most from afar; Syrians flocked to vote for his presidency last spring before he had ever visited their country...
Looking on from afar, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who was slow to express indignation about Soviet tanks in Hungary, read in the Yugoslav-Russian quarrel a lesson of Communist "interference in other countries' domestic affairs...
...male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...