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...This is our time," Clinton said in his Inaugural Address. "Let us embrace it." Last week he had an embrace for everyone, and not just the stars. This huggy-bear President needs to feel the electromagnetism of approval -- but in a New Age way. His seeming candor is an amalgam of born- * again witnessing and self-help testifying, of the church and the couch; you half expect his budget package to be a 12-step program. "I used to play my saxophone a lot, sometimes when I was angry but usually when I was lonely," Clinton told Mister Rogers during...
...winces at talk about changes in her body as she keeps trying -- mostly successfully -- to surpass players half her age. Tennis is a game of intimidation, and Navratilova's renown used to have opponents beaten before a ball was struck. Now, though she prides herself on candor, she struggles not to sound vulnerable. "Am I a little slower? Maybe. But Billie Jean King thinks I'm hitting the ball as well as ever, and I definitely have more shots than I did eight years ago. If I'd had a forehand down the line back then, I would have...
...show gives Leguizamo an actor's tour de force. He plays all six roles, ranging from the piggy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging...
Other contemporaries, such as Guido Reni and Annibale Carracci, affected him deeply as well; he had worked on their turf, in Parma, before coming to Rome. It was, however, Caravaggio, the tragic realist, with his dramatically articulate figures sculpted by darkness, his appetite for common life and his candor about the apprehensible world, who had blown away the mincing academism of late mannerist art and shown the way forward to a whole generation of younger European painters, of whom Ribera was the most gifted...
...Candor Pander. Never trust anyone who begins a sentence, "My dear friends, let me speak frankly to you . . ." Veracity these days is rare enough that its presence need not be advertised with self-congratulatory words like "candor" and "honesty." For while the truth may still set you free, it remains a treacherous path for those who would rather be elected than liberated...