Word: pretenders
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...Above all, never pretend to have sensations from a work of art that you haven't had. It's the greatest...
...telling you something," she pleads. "Pretend, at least." Khalilah looks across the room at me and shrugs...
...think I'm doing something here," the music teacher begs. "Pretend--be actresses here...
Though the show doesn't pretend to be encyclopedic, it is chosen with fine visual intelligence and, not incidentally, is very well installed. Above all, it conveys with exhilarating clarity the sense of discovery that went with the development of iron as a medium of sculpture. We are used to it now: half the corporate plazas of America are cluttered with large and often otiose welded objects. Now and again a real masterpiece is produced in iron -- most recently, the astonishing work by Richard Serra, Intersection II, that was on view until last week at the Gagosian Gallery in SoHo...
...only wonder whether some law of laws will stand revealed some day at the end of the grudging trial-and-error process of science. The theory of everything, even if it existed, however, could not pretend to tell us what we most want to know. It could not tell us why the universe exists -- why there is something rather than nothing at all. And it could not tell us if our lives have meaning, if God loves...