Word: murk
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...boffo merchandise blitz. Yet, however imposing its grosses, however many kids in developing countries wore T shirts with the logo that is supposed to look like a bat in a halo but inevitably suggests a gaping mouth with five rotten teeth, the film was wan, jangled, lost in meandering murk...
...never mind logic. Anthony Hyde's CHINA LAKE (Knopf; $22) takes its title from a secret Naval Intelligence station in the Mojave Desert, where a 25-year-old mystery -- Who gave the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile to the Soviets? -- has never been resolved. Hyde leads us lengthily through the murk of old lies, from California to a wave-swept cliffside in Scotland to another cliff in Wales to East Germany and back to the black depths of a lost gold mine in the Mojave. Quick, light a match! Nope, despite tireless soliloquizing by hero and villain (which is which constitutes...
...Dutch painting is more like a Titian than Rembrandt's Moses Breaking the Tablets (1659), the furious patriarch with a shining face, rearing up from the brown murk to smash the tables of the law. The style of Rembrandt's maturity was so totally his own, even in the way it used the past, that it seems inimitable. But in fact it was widely and constantly imitated, especially by his own assistants, and there begins the problem of attribution with which the Rembrandt Research Project, a team of leading connoisseurs and Rembrandt specialists from Europe and the U.S., has been...
...that nominee will be remains a guessing game. But the prize is there for the taking in an anything-can-happen contest likely to be decided by a combination of TV imagery, strategy, money, luck -- and if voters can see through the murk, the quality of the candidates' ideas...
...that, I believe, is the real legacy of nearly three decades of revisionist Kennedy-assassination investigation. We may not ever know with certainty the Name or the Names. But we do have a much darker, more complex, less innocent vision of America, produced by the murk that has been churned up by the dissidents...