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...enough. Civil disobedience and mass arrests (as those who decided to remain in Washington for the weekend demonstrations would discover) are not enough. Well-worded statements and polished arguments, especially, are not enough. The War proceeds with a logic of its own. Only the Vietnamese "enemy" can contradict that logic...
Self-Taught. Matisse has so long been hailed as the apostle of pictorial flatness that his bronzes, in all their ridged and bulging solidity, might seem to contradict his paintings. In fact, one form complements the other, and the museum's show beautifully demonstrates that exchange; thus key Matisse paintings like Dance (1909) and Blue Nude (1907) grew out of corresponding and earlier sculptures, while his own bronzes appear in many a later Matisse still life...
...shadows do not move. Human figures are either distant specks or huge, sculptural presences-bronze father figures on plinths, reclining "classical" marbles or faceless wooden dummies. But this world has none of the solidity of Renaissance townscape. Instead, it is enigmatic and spectral; the perspectives tilt irrationally and contradict one another, the façades are cardboard, the inhabitants ghosts. "These characters in costume who gesticulate under a 'real' sky, in the middle of 'real' nature, have always given me the impression of something as stupid as it is fake," De Chirico wrote later...
...regularly scheduled meeting of the Paris Talks on January 6, Hanoi once again publicly linked the question of U.S. withdrawal with that of an end to U.S. support to Thieu. While this statement may appear to contradict McGovern, the reader might ask: why, after the U.S. had bombed North Vietnam for seven days in late December, should Hanoi publically appear ready to compromise and submit to the desires of the Nixon administration...
...signed for the Secret Police. When I pointed out that the Secret Police had neglected to include anything about the legal efforts that Elizabeth and I had made to get married, Vogel promised to bring that up as a question at the trial. But he warned me: "Don't contradict the (Secret) Police's testimony. I'm trying to help you and Elizabeth." And he said, "Don't worry about all the political terminology (slave trade, etc.), they always like to give high sentences to foreigners so they can show mercy later." Although Vogel showed up late to the trial...