Word: unconvincingness
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For those who share my ambivalence--which may include not only straights but also gays--a university that unequivocally supports or deplores homosexual love would bruise the our personal integrity by telling us that we had better come to the right moral conclusions about homosexuality, fast. By taking an official...
Unfortunately, the other star, film actor Peter MacNicol (Sophie's Choice), seems irredeemably phony. That results partly from the writing -- he plays a big-time liar in the first piece, a sculptor equally duplicitous in work and love in the second -- and partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The...
The largest work in the show, River of the Moon, 1992, consists of a tangle of thick lead pipes connected to what seems to be a pumping station. These entrails snake up the museum ramp, apparently disappearing into the walls or the floor and re-emerging; they are connected to...
An Unconvincing Suitor
Giacometti, by contrast, did not work in iron at all; every object by him in this show is cast bronze. He is included, presumably, because of his relations to Picasso through the Surrealist figure, because of his influence on Smith and because of the linearity of his style -- an obsessive...