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...well as the biographer, Fragonard is an exasperating puzzle. He rarely signed his works; dating them is still a cause of scholarly spats. In early 19th century biographies, "the good Papa Frago" was often described as a cheerful, round-faced little man, ever smiling and carefree -- a kind of idiot savant of the easel. Yet it seems that he was also riven with self-doubt, constantly redoing canvases and often failing to complete commissions. But Fragonard's inner self remains inscrutable. Contemporary references are surprisingly few and unrevealing. If he wrote any letters, none survive. And he stares out enigmatically...
Sadly, Gary Hart says more about us than he does about himself. As Chauncey Gardner, the idiot in Being There said, "I like to watch." We have watched Hart's bedroom antics. And today, we will watch him wriggle on the cross...
...been lost by default" -- a dire prediction that suggested Reagan was correct in his assessment. Phillips went on to viciously condemn the right wing's onetime standard-bearer. Reagan, he fumed, "is a very weak man with a strong wife and a strong staff. He has become a useful idiot for Soviet propaganda." Dole and other Republican Senators also lashed back: Dole chided the President in the White House, while on the Senate floor Wyoming's Malcolm Wallop called Reagan's remarks "offensive...
...Five out of the six candidates for the Republican presidential nomination oppose the treaty, under which the Soviets will dismantle three times as many warheads as the West. That's not good enough. The most conservative president of this century, it turns out, is no more than a "useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda," according to the head of the Conservative Caucus, one of the president's earliest and (until now) most ardent supporters...
...very well might -- the talks will be racing a deadline of sorts. If a budget compromise is not worked out and enacted by Nov. 20, some $23 billion of automatic spending cuts go into effect under a modified version of the Gramm-Rudman Act. They would slash away with idiot impartiality at defense and social spending, at good programs and bad. And that would just about end any chance that Washington would give the stock markets the signal they yearn...