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...spaghetti, looking like whereas vomit, or Pollock-in onyx, or his best work, at any rate-had an almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous: he would often retouch the drip with a brush. So one is obliged to speak of Pollock in terms of a perfected visual taste, analogous to natural pitch in music-a far cry, indeed, from the familiar image of him as a violent expressionist. As William Rubin suggests in the catalogue to this show...
Literary revisionists seem to retouch their portraits with the blackest of ink. Charles Dickens and Robert Frost are among those who have appeared as conspicuously darker souls to their later readers. Once upon a time Rudyard Kipling was adored as the bully-boy balladeer of the British Empire, a hearty fellow whose prose as well as his poetry thumped as cheerfully as a barroom song-when, that is, he wasn't spinning animal tales for children. Then, in a famous essay, The Kipling That Nobody Read, Edmund Wilson updated this naïf into a modish vision...
...When a guy my age [40] looks twice at an ad, it's time for retouch or rewrite...
...these affairs of passion for classic purposes-to reveal character and find irony rusting the most intense of emotions. Talked out of marrying the wrong American, the heroine of Home Port marries his French equivalent. "You don't change a person's nature," she admits later. "You retouch...
Corroborating Evidence. If the commission had really set out to present a fake autopsy, nothing would have been more logical than to retouch the photographs to support synthetic medical reports. The photos were examined last week by two of the autopsy doctors (the third is on duty in Viet Nam); they agreed that the evidence fully corroborates their testimony before the Warren Commission...