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...pigment is both concrete and extremely sensitive. De Stael could give a sheet of paint, applied with a wide palette knife, the receptivity and sheen of skin, inserting gradations of color so subtle that they have no hope of showing up in reproduction. In Nice, 1954, with the simplest means -- a few bars of awning-green and two shockingly vivid shapes, a red and a black, that may signify deck chairs or possibly buildings -- he could put you right in the middle of a Mediterranean summer. Still, the punch of the image, which would otherwise be merely schematic, is modulated...
...every other menu includes a dish or two from faraway places. Better off than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided -- for an overgrown work ethic has turned its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure. Enveloped in superlatives, West Germany has emerged as one of the world's most affluent societies: the nation with the largest trade surplus; the greatest...
...simplest and most obvious reason: the world is a pretty miserable place for many people. If we can reconstruct the history of life as somehow inherently directed toward us, it is a very comforting thought. It is an old one too. It is embodied right in Genesis 1. We are not willing to give it up easily...
...Thank God" because it's intellectually satisfying to know that there still exist adherents to that simplest, most hallowed of all philosophies: hedonism...
...spacious and sunny Washington office, an anonymous senior Administration official sits and discusses U.S. options in Indochina. "The simplest approach in Cambodia," he theorizes, "is to let the military situation play itself...