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...biblical sense, the truth shall make you free, then members of counterintelligence are serving life sentences. As the CIA's longtime chief of counterintelligence, James Angleton, sees it, agents wander through a "wilderness of mirrors," in which no revelation can be entirely trusted. Many have tried to chart that wilderness, and inevitably much of the landscape and many of the personalities are thoroughly familiar. But David C. Martin, a Washington reporter for Newsweek, has some fresh perspectives: he delves deeply into the daily life of counter-intelligence operatives; he recounts a sensational (and eminently disputable) surmise about Angleton...
...shines through her apocalyptic set, an outdoor sandcastle lit by torches. It's clearly not the kind of sandcastle on which uplifting dreams are built. Since only futility wafts through Beckett's dreams and illusions, this purgatorial anti-Eden perfectly suits Vladimir and Estragon, the two main characters, who wander helplessly in search of the mysterious Godot...
...started with the background, a scumble of brush strokes and hesitations. What he achieved was a space, but one that has nothing to do with the receding perspectives of the Renaissance's vanishing point. It is indeterminate, a cave without walls, a space where a man could wander in his mind's eye and lose his bearings. Contemplating this beckoning No Where, Miró painted on it hard-edged iconographs that pinned the eye to the real surface, the mind to the real world. But not wholly. His image of the earth (a white circle) is only...
Instead, Long's expression creeps into our minds by way of our senses, by contemplation of the subtle calm and simplicity of his method. Long's work is about man's eternal search for order in the chaos around us. He feels impelled to wander in nature, building his own rational and controlled systems from the material around him. The pieces are man-made, yet not artificial. Long is sincerely interested in "the invisibility of art." The phrase is no scrap of artistic rhetoric; it is, rather, the heart of Long's mind. Long is an artist...
...contrast with Kennedy's earlier bumbling performance could not be more startling. Last fall and early winter, he sometimes seemed to lose his concentration in the middle of a speech and wander through rambling, almost incoherent sentences. Now he raps out short, crisp remarks, sometimes punching at the air like a boxer for emphasis, and spices his delivery with sarcastic wit. Deriding Carter's claims that decontrol of oil prices will spur more domestic exploration for petroleum, he notes that Mobil several years ago used some of its rising profits to buy Montgomery Ward. He asks: "How much...