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...nudes and then at Fu-seli's, with their rhetorical gestures and armor-plate muscles, is to sense this. Then reckon in Fuseli's eccentricities, which though irreligious were akin to Blake's own, and it seems clear why the younger painter spared Fuseli the contempt he felt for nearly every other English artist of his day. Fuseli was not "normal." His images are full of paranoia. He boasted that the Devil had sat to him many times. He painted and drew like a man possessed. But the intensity of that possession was more important for Blake...
After Denktas.' proclamation, Makarios denounced the "utter contempt" the Turkish Cypriots had shown for the negotiations and requested an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council; it is expected to begin debate on the issue this week. As for partition, Makarios added, Greek Cypriots would "resist and if necessary sacrifice" themselves to prevent...
Government officials can pick from a choice of press curbs to stop the Sunday Times: the 1911 Official Secrets Acts, which bar unauthorized disclosure of any secret government document; sweeping copyright restrictions; vague and unwritten contempt-of-court rules; and the principle of "confidence," which prohibits publication of industrial secrets and other private information. Those legal weapons are seldom put into action. Their mere existence serves to discourage publication of sensitive material. Editors note wryly that a Watergate scandal might go undetected in Britain because the press there would be prevented from pursuing the story...
Often the best things about these movies are the people who walk through them, performing little if any plot function. What we finally have to deal with is Anna Schmidt, who comes out of nowhere and walks--with a proper contempt for Martins--further into nowhere, down a wet, leaf-littered road lined by the stumps of trees cut down during the war. Scenes like this are unchanging and final. When Harry Lime suddenly appears on the second story of a bombed-out building, standing in a shroud of a black overcoat, robed and stiff like the ragged statue propped...
...Reformed Modernist. Part of his persona was his view of modern art. He regarded it with the contempt that an old blues pianist, after 30 years' rattling the ivories in a Kansas whorehouse, might reserve for ten minutes of John Cage silence. No guts, no drawing, no life: nothing but wind and delusion. Benton made no bones about his idea that nearly everything in art since the Fauves had been rubbish at best, and at worst the fruit (so to speak) of a homosexual conspiracy to rob the U.S. of its primal manly culture. The American museum, he grumbled...