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...that family or food isn't important. It's just the fact that when these "thank-you" are uttered, they are often insincere. It is seldom that we really sit down and think about what is important and valuable in our lives. We say what others will approve of, what is written in some invisible bible on how to live life...
...families, we are honor bound to believe each tearful young mother, to pray for the dog-and-helicopter searches and to wear psychological, if not literal, yellow ribbons. But even as we do so, again and again, we are coming to realize that the climax of such searches is seldom a tearful reunion or even an apprehended bad guy. Far more often, it is a recanting, a tormented regression from "she was stolen" to "she fell" to "I may have dropped her" to "I hit her with a big rock...
...government to these words: "You can depart voluntarily and soon, or you can depart involuntarily and soon." But behind each appearance of a freewheeling attack lies careful prep work. She assiduously maintains her Washington power base, shuttling from New York City as many as five times a week, and seldom lets fly a rhetorical cannonade without first getting an O.K. from the White House...
...cool swing of jazz, yielding seven hit albums and sleek, acerbic singles like Hey Nineteen, about a 30ish Lothario and his drug-loving teenage girlfriend. Becker, whose stringy hair and Fu Manchu lent him a certain wanted-poster chic, and Fagen, in ever present sunglasses, nurtured their legend by seldom performing live, avoiding interviews and generally wrapping themselves in mystique...
Though lyrically involved with the Italian past, Twombly seldom quotes directly from its dead artists. An exception is Leonardo, whose temperament -- combining a fastidious eye for minute incident with a pessimistic, even apocalyptic imagination -- evidently intrigues him.The most successful trace is in Leda and the Swan, 1962, which enlarges the turbid vortices of the Deluge studies into a frenzy of scribbles and feathers, sexual and comic at the same time...