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Thus Roland Barthes's essay on "The New Citroen" and the magic of its attraction, in Mythologies. A smooth, silent, seamless object, the modern automobile speaks the myth of a nature which is miraculous and benign. No longer does the automobile express mere speed, but speed with natural grace. Its surface and shape defy the sense of touch, make it seem already in motion, and imply a nature which is orderly and self-coherent. It is like a goddess who brings the order of heaven down to earth--and prostitutes herself to every petit-bourgeois who can afford the monthly...
...call Renoir superficial is in some degree to miss the meaning of his art, for it is about surfaces. Smooth or fuzzy, rounded and fleshy or fruity, bathed in the crystalline light of Provencal sun or lapped by the amenable glow of gas light, his surfaces suggest a dense pro fusion of incident and reality that more modern eyes, intent only on structure, pass over and lose...
...seems very likely [that] the Administration will smooth out the rough edges of the war and [try] to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be 'reformed' to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly ground operations that have sent so many young men back to the United States in wooden boxes...
...success to a branch of astronomy called astrometry, which includes the measuring of tiny perturbations, or wobbles, in the paths of some stars as they move almost imperceptibly against the background of much more distant "fixed" stars. Astronomers are convinced that those periodic disturbances in what should be a smooth line of motion as the stars wheel about the center of the Milky Way Galaxy can mean only one thing: that the stars are being tugged by the gravitational attraction of planets or small companion stars orbiting around them...
...stands, the agreement is fuzzy in outline and extremely delicate: whether it will survive depends on the determination of the signers to smooth over the inevitable conflicts that will arise in its implementation. It is up to the President to avoid the precedent of the 1954. Geneva agreements--which were speedily torpedoed by the refusal of the United States to permit Vietnam to conduct its elections...