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Some of Roiphe's other points are not backed up by fact or cogent analysis. Her assertion of feminism's lack of alternative viewpoints on date rape was refuted well by Professor Barbara Johnson in her rebuttal of Roiphe...
...have to be an all-out fan of Cy Twombly's -- though he certainly has them -- to welcome the show of his paintings and drawings at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Kirk Varnedoe, it is a handsome affair with a cogent, detailed catalog introduction. Neither show nor catalog exactly inflates its subject, and yet one may not be quite convinced that Twombly, despite the past slights inflicted on his reputation in America, is the powerful artist of the first rank that moma would like...
When playing, Levin's body sways back and forth, but he can still somehow deliver cogent sentences. Students say his lectures are vivid and interesting...
Other commencement speeches are less coherent, relying on pretty metaphors rather than cogent messages. Speaking at the Juilliard School, Jane Alexander, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, made a hazy comparison between life and sailing. "You chart a trek where no one's sailed before," she said, quoting the poet Samuel Hazo. "You rig. You anchor Up. You said." A nice almost inspirational image, but not very useful advice to the Class...
...anticipate problems before they crop up. And he has immersed himself with characteristic intensity in preparing for the bilateral meetings as well as the ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Rome and France. As usual, the immersion has paid off. At Annapolis, Clinton delivered the most cogent explanation of his policy in Bosnia, declaring that the U.S. is trying to help "resolve the problems of the world without having to commit the lives of our own soldiers where they should not be committed...