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She Said Yes acknowledges this in a backhanded way, with the caveat that "the exact details of Cassie's death ...
That Matisse is essentially an Apollonian artist and Picasso a Dionysian is evident even from the backhanded compliments they paid each other.
Perhaps the best backhanded compliment is provided by another New York Times review, this one from the daily paper: Richard Kluger writes that the book has "only occasional spasms of the immodesty that almost by definition infects all who venture into autobiography."
But to have a gentle black giant hang his head and say "Yes, Boss," while almost every guard in a Louisiana prison circa 1935 is portrayed as a forward-thinking, tolerant humanist is the biggest backhanded slap I've seen in a studio movie in a long time.
The two authors of the New Yorker article, Jane Mayer and Alexandra Robbins, buttress their insult to the governor's privacy with a backhanded compliment.