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...morbidly, refined. His figures made of butterfly wings are exquisite; looking at some of his surfaces, particularly in the later collages and "Texturologies" of the 1950s, one finds oneself comparing them to the tarnished and mottled silver leaf on a Japanese screen or to richly tanned and patinated leather. Doubtless some of them present insoluble problems for the conservator -- see them now, they won't be around in another 50 years -- and yet, in a perverse way, they look like the work of a craftsman-artist obsessed with nuance, an art that is not raw at all but cooked exactly...
...Doubtless, visions of that commercial danced through the heads of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D.N.J.) and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.)--both of whom witnessed governors badly bruised by anti-tax backlash...
...burden, then, is that he cannot be other than himself ("That's Charles just being Charles" is the rueful and affectionate comment of those around him), Jordan's is that he cannot be other than immortal. Barkley reminds us again and again that he is not sufficiently recognized; Jordan doubtless feels that he is recognized too much. Barkley, in fact, seems not so different from the laughing and imprudent rest of us. The new Sun, you could say, is a hero because he is so human -- overweight, gregarious, hotheaded, a 6-ft. 5-in. man who, through willpower alone, outjumps...
...where even the local drunk was part of the patchwork and where attention was paid. That's the genial view taken by novelist Richard Russo in The Risk Pool, Mohawk and his new book Nobody's Fool, three funny, loose-jointed yarns about backwater burgs in upstate New York. Doubtless it is contrary to recall the rest of the truth, which is that small towns were rigidly small-minded. That was the engine that drove American literature for several generations, as exasperated young writers, fed up with Main Street hypocrisy, lit out for Chicago or New York City...
...cause of differences in academic achievement. As Choi admits, it merely introduces differences to Harvard from society at large--differences which exist there for precisely the deeper reasons which the Indy suggests. Of these reasons, incidentally, I find the "expectations" argument the most plausible. While their families have doubtless had high expectations for all Harvard students, teachers and the mass media tend to convey more discouraging messages to Black and Latino students which are tough to fight past. And of a piece with these low expectations, I must add, are the very statistics which Choi uses to justify the claim...