Word: revealed
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...essentials, black and white. He creates a world of undefinable forms and limited space through the use of thick brushstroke and straight edges. In Composition (1952), space is sectioned off by geometric forms, creating depth and volume within a closed space. The white has traces of black to reveal the underlying layers of the painting as well as to indicate the presence of the painter himself. High Street (1950) portrays a more complicated definiton of space less successfully through the application of black and white. The forms are more planar, and the white is cleaner; thus, the painting is pushed...
Lately, however, the trend has been for putative triumphs to reveal themselves as defeats rather than the other way around, and to do so quickly. Almost as soon as West Germany, for instance, achieved its fondest desire, unification with East Germany, its economy and politics started going haywire, and the peace and prosperity that had resulted from surrender was over. The Senate's confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was a putative win for the Bush Administration and the Republicans, but it was anti-Thomas backlash a year later that elected a squadron of Democratic women...
Columnist William Safire, commenting on the Senator Packwood follies, observed that our diaries reveal our youthful selves to our aging selves, and that we should not be surprised if what we see sometimes makes us wince. Annas suggests that the genetic revolution has reversed that proposition. Our genes, he says, could serve as "future diaries" that will reveal our aging selves to our youthful selves...
What can opponents of the President's health plan reveal to match this collection of prejudices? I confess proudly: my emulation of the man whose season comes around every December, Ebenezer Scrooge. Every time I hear it said, in accents of panic, that 37 million of my fellow citizens lack health insurance, I find myself thinking, as that keen economist said when he was approached by professional do-gooders, "Are there no workhouses...
...record sales, Jackson's career has steadily plummeted since the all-time best-sellerdom of Thriller in 1982. But now the superstar with an abused childhood is something between an object of pity and a dirty joke. His travail could still end in courtroom triumph. It might also reveal tragedy, for Jackson and for children even more vulnerable than he. Then the circus will close down, and Michael's white clown-face will never smile again...