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Daddy is big indeed. A former heavyweight champion of Uganda -he retired undefeated in 1960-Amin packs about 240 Ibs. on his chunky 6-ft. 3-in. frame. He is also not your ordinary, everyday military dictator. A devout Moslem who detests hashish and miniskirts with equal fervor, he has four wives, three of whom take turns acting as official hostesses at presidential tea parties in Kampala. On Uganda's hotter days, Amin is likely to show up at hotel pools clad only in a pair of faded blue shorts...
Coles has a philosophical bent too. Philosophers Sören Kierkegaard and Simone Weil appeal to him for their interest in "everydayness, the everyday movement of people's lives." He admires Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man) and William Faulkner?"the real psychologists." Most important to Coles, though, is the late James Agee, whose writing style he consciously imitated in the early 1960s and whose photograph looks down on Coles as he writes. Erikson says that Coles strongly identifies with the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that early portrait of sharecroppers. Both writers, says Erikson, "are part of a tradition...
TECHNOLOGY: In his State of the Union message Nixon proudly described a new program in which the Government will cooperate with private industry in developing a series of ultrahigh-technology projects to "improve our everyday lives." These include new mass transit systems and fire-fighting techniques employing helicopters. Unfortunately, Nixon had more new ideas than new funds: the Government will spend only a modest $700 million on new civilian research programs in 1973, with another $800 million going to military research...
...opposites," begins the caption to his punningly titled Wizdumb Bridge, 1969, and the declaration fits the imagery, which manages to be both specific and curiously vague. The cracked concrete is Wiley's studio floor, the tipped-over paint tin that spreads its river beneath the "bridge" is an everyday accident. But the sum effect is a crazy quilt of potentially familiar objects, a mosaic of recollection that is suggested but eludes the viewer. In this way, Wiley manages to endow something as banal as a wooden stump with a tantalizing load of implied memory. The strategy...
Though not true in a literal sense, a myth is not what it is considered to be in everyday speech-a fantasy or a misstatement. It is rather a veiled explanation of the truth. The transformation from fact to myth is endlessly fascinating. The battle of Achilles and Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including...