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...remember how I saw it when I was five and how I used to close my eyes when the witch melted. You don't forget that. I don't close my eyes now, so I think seeing it again shows you how your memory was distorted or how you misunderstood...
...image all at once, and the size of the canvases is meant not so much to impress you in the familiar, take-it-or-leave-it American fashion as to draw you slowly into the web. This, too, is part of Pollock's often misunderstood legacy. Looking at the "Cold Mountain" paintings one inevitably thinks of nature: thin they are, and austere, but also full of light and space. They suggest mountain landscapes, rocks half-effaced by blowing mist, sharp things incompletely seen. They are materializations of the words of the Chinese philosopher...
...abortive attempt to buy the food and tobacco company he headed. The defeat was a setback for her husband too. American Express's Shearson Lehman unit had bankrolled Johnson, and Jim Robinson had worked closely on the deal. More recently, she sought to portray Milken as a misunderstood benefactor of the poor. But the campaign had little impact on perceptions of the junk man, who is serving a 10-year sentence for violating securities laws...
...answer this ad hominem attack on me by asking Cloud to explain how he could have misunderstood my positions and actions, when I clearly explained them to him twice, and when I have also publicly promulgated them to the Harvard community...
...latest novel, The Song Dog (Mysterious Press; 274 pages; $17.95), McClure goes back to the beginning -- or, rather, before the beginning. The Song Dog concerns the cases that brought Kramer and Zondi together: two private vendettas, one black and one white, that are misunderstood as political terrorism. The action is set in 1962, mostly during the week when Nelson Mandela was taken into custody. That arrest, and its long-term deforming consequences for South African society, plays an oblique but significant role in the narrative -- especially in the distant fate foretold for the team in the novel's final paragraphs...