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Along the way, he meets up with an escaped convict (who's still got the cuffs on his hands,) a Lexas waitress who wishes she could go to France, and her monstrous husband, who thinks the two of them have been fooling around...
...advanced artists had painted a cow, and when Dubuffet did so it seemed to set itself against a whole tradition of animal as heroic metaphor. And for those who (understandably) yearned for a return to the French pictorial tradition of luxe, calme et volupte, the sight of Dubuffet's monstrous kippered nudes squashed flat in their beds of pigment was not only an affront, it was like the slamming of a door on a much loved tradition. Such Dubuffets were shocking in a way that no Picassos, by the mid-'50s, could possibly have been...
...past. The nation's promise tends to override its memories. The best life lies ahead, like a highway heading west. There are American ghosts, of course, haunted rooms, secrets in the attic. But the virtue of the New World has always been its newness. "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory?" Ralph Waldo Emerson asked. Henry Ford never looked back. "History," he said, "is more or less bunk...
...carefully crafted to acknowledge Nazi atrocities while also striking a note of amity with the Germans. The message, delivered with obvious feeling, was a skillful exercise in both the art of eulogy and political damage control. "Above all, we are struck by the horror of it all--the monstrous, incomprehensible horror," Reagan said. "Here, death ruled...
...when the knights somehow seem monstrous, killers risen out of a black id, perpetrators of My Lai, then the entire chivalric logic collapses, and masculinity itself becomes a horror--all rage and aggression and reptilian brain. Viet Nam changed American notions about the virtues of masculinity and femininity. In the '60s, during the great violence of the war, masculine power came to be subtly discredited in many circles as oafish and destructive. The heritage of the Enlightenment (the scientific method, progress, that dreamy Jeffersonian clarity of mind that told us all problems could be solved) now seemed drawn into...