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Nature has many ways of saying "Do not understand me too quickly," and Thomas is constantly watchful for the exception that disproves the rule. Both as scientist and humanist, he finds that doubt is his most reliable ally. Bewilderment, as he also calls it, is the 20th century's...
Considering the script, Steenburgen's portrayal of Phoebe is an impeccable one. Unfortunately, this does not make her a viable romantic focus. All smiles, playing with ducks and little children, helping Jason's pregnant wife do her exercises, or just staring, wide-eyed, at Jason, she is about as engaging...
Motherwell never dissembled about his sources. Not only was a sign for the human body like Figure in Black, 1947, with its mask's eyes staring from the bent trapezoid of a head, clearly derived from Picasso, but Motherwell would also write more knowledgeably about Picasso than most of...
Is there anything really wrong, however, in a more limited, pragmatic, undazzling idealism? Einstein said, "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." How would the grand seers answer the questions one faces in late 1983: How to maintain the balance of world powers without sacrificing principle or...
The painting has the quality of farce, presented in the guise of a Second Empire pictorial machine. At the same time it is intensely serious (as farce can be), and one of the victims of its seriousness is the stereo type of the nude. Manet invariably painted women as equal...