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...writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm," wrote Norman Mailer nearly 30 years ago. The early Southern stories have the delicate tinkle of glasses of iced tea; a touch sweet, perhaps, but clean and cool. "The Headless Hawk" (1946) is set in Manhattan and offers a sketch of the author as he may have seen himself: "He was not so handsome as he supposed, but handsome all the same. For his moderate height he was excellently proportioned; his hair was dark yellow, and his delicate, rather snub-nosed face had a fine, ruddy coloring." Capote's journalism...
...masterpieces, some of which are in this show. Neoexpressionism also left behind a quantity of unresolved questions, such as its degree of aesthetic success and its relation to American abstract expressionism, that are scarcely broached in the catalog. Given the scope of its subject, "Berlinart" is only a sketch. One can imagine half a dozen more focused shows spun off from it. But it is certainly worth seeing for its own sake...
...other orphans, real and imaginary, Simpson tells many touching tales: how Rousseau was so devastated by his father's disappearance that he abandoned his own children; how Jane Eyre was scorned by Mr. Rochester in the cruel words "Who in the world cares for you?" Simpson's efforts to sketch from these case histories a kind of psychology of orphanhood, however, do not get much beyond repeated cries of suffering and loss. Thus Bertrand Russell: "The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain -- a curious wild pain -- a searching for something beyond what the world contains...
Still, Liman and House Chief Counsel John Nields managed to sketch some broader themes than North's more limited view of how a democracy functions. Nields pounced on North's complaint that his contra support role had been publicized in Moscow, Havana and Managua. "All our enemies knew it," replied Nields solemnly, "and you wanted to conceal it from the United States Congress...
...accused embassy guards sketch that pattern, or was it provided by aggressive, overzealous agents of the Naval Investigative Service? According to military attorneys for Lonetree and Bracy, the classified report of the formal investigation reveals that Lonetree's NIS interrogators urged him to "lie to us, Clayton," hoping that he would implicate others...