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...Nothing will come of nothing" is an axiom of art history, and the notion that Impressionism was a matter of innocent eyes doing sunlight with broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests quick shots of fleeting things. Yet the main progenitor of New Painting was the most solid, stubborn and material painter imaginable, Gustave Courbet. A Renoir like Bather with a Terrier, 1870, could hardly exist without the example of Courbet's wardrobe nudes. Courbet was the doubting Thomas of painting...
...most recent polls indicate that voters may well adhere to their favorite axiom: Better the evil you know than the one you have yet to meet. "Mexicans are torn between their desire for change and their fear of change," says Delal Baer, director of the Mexico Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. In the privacy of the voting booth, she added, they may well choose the certitude of the P.R.I. over the question marks represented by the opposition...
Altman's shifting explanation of his behavior proves once more that the axiom is true: it is the cover-up, not the original sin, that tends to bring down government officials. But to this axiom there is a Clinton codicil. Overschooled in damage control during the 1992 campaign, Clinton White House officials have exerted a kind of obsessive reluctance at every level to just let the government do its work. Evidence is growing that rather than allowing the RTC to try to recover the $47 million in lost taxpayer funds from the officers of a failed savings and loan...
...rise of the religious right is proof of a well-established axiom of politics: even a small number of committed activists can take control of the party caucuses and committee meetings that usually draw small crowds. In Minnesota only about 1% of the state's active Republicans attended the caucuses that chose delegates for last week's convention. Ideological commitment also ensures that the troops of the Christian right work overtime for their chosen candidates. "Those who serve," televangelist Pat Robertson once told TIME, "have a tendency, ultimately, to be those who lead...
...studying the principles that endeavor to explain athletics, there is a third axiom which must not be forgotten: after suffering setbacks against the lesser teams, the better teams inevitably respond in triumph even more vigorously then before... that's what makes them better...