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...both prolific and profoundly influential, his life packed with dramatic incident and grand gesture. Yet while there have been Wright biographies (including his own maundering, portentous, 1932 memoir), his life hasn't had the acute summation and assessment it deserves. While Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright is highly imperfect -- her chats about his personality and architecture are trite almost without exception -- it is still the best so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact...
...Etruscan vase: blue sky, green billowing earth, red flesh inflected with deeper, Indian-red drawing. It could not be more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs for arched back, swollen belly, prancing, dragging, reaching. One clue to this is the complicated knot formed by the crossing legs of the second figure from the left, and the hands of the two dancers in front of her. There the circle of the dance breaks; the hands...
While the major dailies gather much of their news through press briefings and wire services, The Crimson relies primarily upon its editors. With some groups underrepresented on the staff, including not only certain racial minorities but also certain political and religious communities, we are bound to be imperfect. Some events will not come to our attention; some important subtleties will be missed...
Even aside from the abortion issue, the concept of prenatal child abuse has other disturbing implications. In less obvious cases of abuse, a mother's custody of her newborn child might depend on a positive drug test, a notoriously imperfect procedure. Twice in the past three years, New York Judges have removed children at birth after the mother tested positive for drugs, only to find later that they were mistaken...
...earnest though imperfect attempt to embody the Wilsonian principle of national self-determination, the postwar settlement created several new countries that were true nation-states. The Poles got back Poland, and the Hungarians got Hungary...