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...possible, of the delicious pleasures of light, shade, drama, color and suggestive texture--not to mention the primal infantile pleasure of smearing colored mud around on a virginal surface--associated with making a picture? The piety of this search, seen as an act of exemplary denial, is the ghost that haunts the machine of American abstraction--and the emotionless grids of LeWitt's work in particular. Not all abstraction, of course, some of which (most famously, Abstract Expressionism) is as lush as Frederic Church's skies or Marilyn Monroe's cleavage. But enough of it to make up a distinct...
...turned this experience into what amounts to his own harsh Strindbergian Ghost Sonata remains a mystery. One can easily imagine someone less guilt ridden than Bergman regarding the incident more as a youthful folly than as a life-shaping event. The facts of the matter are mundane enough, as he says in his book. In 1949, Bergman and a journalist named Gun Hagberg, both unhappily married, entered into a passionate affair, beginning with a long tryst in Paris, and continuing after their return to Sweden, where she discovered she was pregnant with his child. A bitter wrangle with her husband...
...Part of truth telling is standing at the edge of the cliff and saying, I've got to see this, and then you jump," she says. "You don't know how you're going to land." Yamanaka is working on a new novel she describes as "a kind of ghost story," which may testify to the fact that she did land, only to take flight again...
Bush would rather do battle with Clinton's ghost than a Senator of his own party. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer was right when he labeled Clinton's last-minute pile of new rules, orders and treaties the work of a "busy beaver." The former President's aides had mischief in mind when they conjured up some of these actions, especially the designation of more than 5.6 million acres of federal land as national monuments. If Bush wants to reverse those orders, he will face howls of protests from environmental groups. "We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide...
...presidential transformations can be reversed. The presidential Nixon of 1969 ended as the bitter, thuggish ghost of San Clemente. Lyndon Johnson, messiah of the Great Society, finished his life as the King Lear of the Hill Country. And Bill Clinton, the shoeshine and the smile of the '90s, confirms everyone's worst suspicions as he departs...