Word: fancifulism
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Of course, party organizers will contend that this is merely a gentle self-mockery in which conservatives' own acknowledged sense of risk is exposed as paranoia. Clearly conservatives want to have it both ways (an aspiration with which many of us can identify). They would simultaneously suggest that the rhetoric...
And that's what it's like reading Morris' new biography, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (Random House; 874 pages; $35). There is fact and there is fiction, and they are jumbled together. The facts are meticulously footnoted in an epic 115-page section at the end of the...
If you want to make a statement with a really, really expensive metal, you could go with osmium. My personal favorite is gadolinium. When you say it fast, it sings. On the more fanciful side, californium, for the laid-back customer, einsteinium, for the exceptionally wise money manager, neptunium, for...
But "The Ardennes Forest" goes on to explicitlyaddress this problem. It contrasts the thousandmagical fluttering eyelids with "a thousand lidspressed/ tightly on motionless eyebrows,"presenting the ancient Ardennes along with itsidentity as the setting for the Battle of theBulge, and in the end Herbert asserts that even"the dead also...
Since when do coils of metal resembling shipyard scrap become "sculpture"? Robert Hughes has apparently shed common sense in his fanciful review of Serra's curved metal junk titled Torqued Ellipses and assumed the role of a member of a simpering claque favoring obvious nonsense. MURRAY B. STEPHENS San Antonio...