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...beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries-an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility of desire and has something mockingly demonic, not just medical, about it. To see his grotesques as the mere play of a mind tinged with sadism is to misunderstand them. They are an essential part of the impulse that turned Leonardo toward an attachment to beauty as a kind of saving principle." Read more at timearchive.com...
...opposing manager in a World Series game says the use of pine tar “is not crossing the line,” that says something about the overall acceptance of foreign substances in Major League Baseball. That being said, please don’t misunderstand my intentions as an attempt to at least partially absolve Kenny Rogers. Personally, I find the guy downright obnoxious. His antics following the Tigers’ Division Series win against the Yankees, when he climbed on top of the dugout and started spraying champagne on fans and the head of a security...
...protesters pledged solidarity with all immigrants, consistently referring to illegal immigrants simply as immigrants. But this is to misunderstand the real debate, which does not pit those who are pro-immigration against those who are anti-immigration. Rather, this is a legal question and question of extent: How should we change our laws, and how many immigrants should we let in each year? Few are opposed to immigration; many are opposed to uncontrolled immigration. Besides, to conflate illegal immigrants with immigrants is an egregious affront to America’s 50 million legal immigrants if ever there...
...clear that political reform is off his agenda and seems to be playing to the Communist Youth League; Hu Yaobang headed the group in the 1950s and '60s, and Hu Jintao was its boss in the mid-1980s. Says an editor of a leading Chinese magazine: "Nobody will misunderstand and think Hu Jintao is promoting political reforms...
...Don’t misunderstand me—the employees of the Bank all knowingly make significantly less than their skills would garner in the private sector. But that sacrifice is supplanted with additional assets that lure these economists, lawyers, and administrators into the institution. In thanks for the living the life of the starving intellectual after they leave work, the employees of the bank are surrounded by opulence and given many perks, including a more relaxed schedule than banking usually requires...