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We may not be ready to hide the female body's true strength, to celebrate feminine charm with luxury and high artifice.
The argument was that he'd brainwashed the country with smoke and mirrors, artifice and stagecraft.
There's the strain of finding something to argue about in every big news event, the artifice of dividing every controversy into two sides labeled "left" and "right."
But if Haynes wants Velvet Goldmine to be an anthem to the principles Bowie once embodied--the embrace of artifice and the smashing of conventional sexual roles--he also wants to portray the rocker as a hollow opportunist who abandoned glam and bisexuality for the life of a corporate superstar, throwing in his lot with the forces of repression.
And as the public comes to believe instead that Clinton's flexibility and artifice led to the Wye agreement, the agreement's antagonists--or even its reluctant signers--will be tempted to demand that the terms be revised, arguing that Clinton deceived them and figuring that he will bend under pressure.