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...Paul Gray...
...with his Fish, 1930: a 6-ft. blade of mottled, blue-gray marble, which floats above a circular "pond" of creamy limestone. It resembles a large weather vane, and, in fact, it is mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the blade is very pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone...
Indeed, how much do these books then fulfill their own prophecies? How much do people change or change others to match these neat, much more easily handled packages? John Gray's amazingly popular bestseller, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, is another example of pop-psychology literature that fails to address the complexity of relationships and gender. Based on the notion that there are fundamental emotional differences between the sexes, this book, with its chapters on what happens when you fall in love with a "Venusian," effectively stereotypes gender psyches the way no one would allow with regard...
...therefore important to devise explicit laws that clearly define the parameters of free speech. The line must be drawn between harm-inducing speech and freedom of speech that is a necessary condition for a free and democratic society. There are many gray areas that need to be clarified and discussed (in a civil manner) before such laws are implemented...
...ROTHSTEIN (ROBERT DE NIRO) favors sports jackets in blinding solids--sometimes in the primary hues, sometimes in less-than-subtle pastels. These he color-coordinates with silky haberdashery and alligator loafers dyed to match. But underneath his sight-gag plumage lives a gray, watchful, calculating spirit. He's a professional gambler, always looking for an edge. Or, once the Mob makes him manager of a Las Vegas casino in the 1970s, the preternaturally alert defender of its edge over the assembled suckers...