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...Elwes is careful to point out in his interpretation of the character. Removed to the solitude of a country priory after his marriage to Jane, his formerly Falstaffian antics are revealed as a cover for his profound discontentedness at the current state of affairs in the country. His emotional grasp of the politico-economic situation complements Jane's intellectual ponderings--they are, as Guilford later points out, "two sides of the same coin...
...dash of unpredictability in the reportage. He says his goal is to make the Examiner one of the ten best newspapers in the country, a dream the paper proudly touts in print ads by running a picture of Hearst under a headline assigning him blame if ambition exceeds grasp...
...reason, the curators did not include any of the triptychs that were Beckmann's crowning achievement as a pictorial fabulist; and so, despite the presence of two or three works as good as Aerial Acrobats, 1928--a Goya-like capricho rendered with grandly menacing stolidity--a visitor might not grasp why Beckmann could be considered the greatest German artist of the 20th century...
...potato to make when dropped. It is the concealed background against which the achievements of Beuys and Kiefer have to be seen, since a large part of their work is an attempt to address the older, mythic imagery of German romanticism, which the Nazis appropriated and corrupted. Unless we grasp the ways in which Hitler's culture took over a large part of the inherited content of expressionism--its obsession with the mystical, the vast, the unconsciously collective and the charismatic, and its magnification of an inbuilt weakness for kitschy spirituality into a noxious rhetoric of state power--we will...
...stand trial on racketeering and conspiracy charges, along with ten other accused members of the Commission. Whether he hoped the payment would come in the form of exoneration from those charges will probably never be known. Before the trial could begin, the bloodthirsty Little Lamb slipped from the grasp of federal prosecutors...