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...deal of the effort of modernist painting was devoted to expelling illusion as a fraud, a lie and a cheat on the deeper impulses of art, one can easily see why Dali's illusionism was so bitterly attacked as mere trickery--an imposture made even worse by Dali's flagrant preference for Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career...
...Giuliani has been flagrant in his refusal to sympathize with the victims of police brutality," West said after his speech...
...problem, they claim, lies in what appears to be an innocuous clause of the "Brown Standards of Student Conduct." Section IIB of the standards states that "behavior which shows flagrant disrespect for the well-being of others" can be subject to disciplinary action--a close echo of Harvard College's own guidelines, which specify punishment for "grave disrespect to the dignity of others...
According to commission rules, any action that directly violates College policy is grounds for disqualification from the election, as is any for which one could be brought before the Administrative Board. Even without the flagrant spending violations, Driskell and Burton should not have been allowed to stay in the race because they clearly went against College policy. It is absolutely unacceptable that the commission has allowed them to break the rules and get away with it while the other candidates obeyed the rules assuming the other candidates would be held to them. Furthermore, the fact that both Driskell and Burton...
...Kennedy's personal failings, including the fatal car crash at Chappaquiddick, his flagrant womanizing and broken marriage, his excessive drinking, his enabling role in the boozy evening that led to his nephew William Kennedy Smith's trial (and acquittal) for rape--all are dealt with matter-of-factly and unsensationally, but not without judgment. Clymer describes these episodes as they were: egregious cases of irresponsible behavior that disqualified Kennedy from ever being President. But he also paints a sympathetic picture of a lonely man who finds love with his second wife Vicki...