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...always clear. It lay in his unique gift of pure color. He possessed to the nth degree the power of making a flat disk of yellow or a slice of viridian turn into a lemon or a leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop and the surging diagonal of the flowers in the vase...
...wily is about the last word Marylanders would apply to Mikulski. Blunt, outspoken and feisty would describe her better. She is a fierce debater, with a fondness for pointed quips. "I define public service as not only to be a help but to be an advocate," says Mikulski. In the Senate, she adds, "I plan to use the good mind, the good mouth, the good heart God gave...
Since he first went to work for California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967, Lyn Nofziger had been one of the Republican Party's shrewdest and most colorful strategists. Blunt and profane, with a wisecracking sense of humor, the former newspaperman served on Richard Nixon's White House staff, advised the Republican National Committee and helped guide Reagan to the presidency. Nofziger left his job as Reagan's political director in January 1982 to launch one of Washington's proliferating "communications" firms. He apparently succeeded at his brand of lobbying, but at considerable risk to his reputation as a smart operator...
...scientific information about AIDS or predictions about its spread. What distinguished them from previous pronouncements was the authority of their authors (the National Academy of Sciences was chartered by Congress in 1863 as a private body to give advice to the Federal Government), their uncompromisingly blunt language and the urgent tone of their recommendations. Said David Baltimore, cochairman of the NAS committee, at a Washington press conference: "This is a national health crisis . . . We are quite honestly frightened about the prospects...
...journeyed to the White House to tell Richard Nixon that he had lost his support on Capitol Hill. In the 1980s, when many thought of him as a kind of political relic, he achieved perhaps his greatest effectiveness. Although he was never a Senate insider (he was far too blunt and unpredictable for that), as chairman of the Armed Services Committee he won what he considers his most important victory, the passage of the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, which streamlines the byzantine military decision-making process...