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...personal character of Charles II over political events--a justifiable technique in recounting 17th-century history, where the idiosyncrasies of reigning monarchs deeply influenced national policy. The psychological portrait is not sophisticated. Fraser argues that deep melancholy lay behind Charles's self-indulgence--hardly a new or clinical insight. She says she wants to strip away the layers of romantic gloss, but Fraser's left enough to make this an entertaining, if overly adulatory biography...
...Beaubourg's top floor every day is between 8,000 and 12,000, a remarkable turnout for a live artist in a country whose public has never much liked modern art. Only Tut could pack them in like this. Culture votes with its feet, ratifying Dali's insight that in an age of mass communications, it is better to seem than to be: success, in effect, is the triumph of packaging over contents...
...Jimmy Carter? "He is a complex, contradictory personality," Mazlish and Diamond say. They continue in a flash of insight: "Most of us, of course, are complex and full of contradictions." Carter's brand of neo-populist rhetoric and waffling reflects those contradictions. Expediency exists as part of Carter's "realism." The president blurs the lines between liberalism and conservatism because he must be "true to his own character, with its basic need to embrace contradictions." Carter's remembrances of his downtrodden childhood, his career as a "nuclear engineer," his faith in Bert Lance--all explained...
...history. He has answered all questions about and taken responsibility for all of his actions. He testified under oath about his behavior at Chappaquiddick and despite every attempt, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, to disprove his story, no one has ever done so conclusively. Those looking for insight into his character would do better looking at two decades of support for blacks, Hispanics and native Americans than at one more analysis of the tidal currents under Dyke Bridge...
Economics is an uncomplicated matter, Reagan assures his listeners. Just end deficit spending. "This is the single cause of inflation, and inflation is the cause of recession." (He revealed this insight four years ago in Kennet High School in Conway, N.H., before a rapt audience...