Word: compliments
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...words in TIME by the number of word journalists on our masthead. "That works out to slightly over 100 words a week per journalist," he wrote, explaining that the staff generates and then digests vast amounts of reporting, most of which never sees print. He then added a barbed compliment: "It is a system of literary creation like nothing else on earth, except Newsweek." Welcome to our masthead, Mr. Kinsley...
Perhaps it was natural that Japanese artists should return the compliment; anyhow it was inevitable, once the traditional isolation of Japan was broken by the Emperor Meiji's decree, in 1868, that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world." As J. Thomas Rimer points out in a fascinating catalog essay to this show, the teaching of Western art in Meiji Tokyo began in 1876 mainly as a "scientific" discipline. But before long the bizarre techniques of the mysterious Occident developed their own momentum for Japanese artists, and particularly the Western way of depicting forms by smearing a kind of sticky...
...arms control in the Administration feared that Warnke might be right. Richard Perle, whom Nitze brought to Washington in the late '60s and who served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense until earlier this year, remarked, "Paul is an inveterate problem solver." He did not mean it as a compliment. Nitze, however, took it as one, and he has lived up to Perle's apprehensions...
...from Anselm Kiefer's retrospective, which has just opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, that at 42 this German artist is the best painter of his generation on either side of the Atlantic. Given most of the talent we have, this may not sound like much of a compliment. Certainly Kiefer's limitations are inescapable: his drawing lacks fluency and clarity and his color is monotonous, though the former seems to reinforce the grinding earnestness of his style and the latter contributes to its lugubrious intensity. What counts, is that he is one of the few visual artists...
...contras. Shortly before he was fired, North said, Shultz took him aside at a party, "put his arm around my shoulder and told me what a remarkable job I had done keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive." (A spokesman for Shultz said the Secretary had intended only to compliment North for boosting contra morale...