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Orientalism and its even more ambitious sequel Culture and Imperialism are works of passionate, almost agonized ambivalence.
One wonders whether the dark and shadowy world of his photographs might have had some association in his mind with the ambivalence he felt toward the Jews he posed in such excruciating positions.
Unlike the novelist, who invents (supposedly) his characters, or the historian, who grapples with a populous cast, the biographer enters into a curious intimacy with the person being written about, a relationship charged with ambivalence, resentment, love, dependency, and all the myriad other emotions that crowd in whenever we allow ourselves to become intimate with another.
The spot capitalizes on the ambivalence greeting Dole's 15 percent tax-cut proposal: The latest CBS/ New York Times poll shows that voters aren't sure the cut is good for the country, but still favor it 61 percent to 33 percent.
In Rome, La Repubblica reported from New York on the ambivalence of President Clinton's attitude toward Hollywood, pointing out that a few hours after accusing it of promoting violence and having direct responsibility for massacres in American schools, he had gone to dinner in Beverly Hills with film industry friends who had poured millions of dollars into Democratic Party coffers.