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Newspapers are extremely good at bringing people's contradictions to a wide audience.
Poems rely on narrative imagery to evoke feelings, while epigrams focus on contradictions to provoke thought.
One complaint: Dearborn "prefers to get Mailer's contradictions and irrationalities onto the page as story" instead of exploring the meanings behind them, and she "likes to knock the stuffing out of [Mailer] when she finds him too upholstered" (Caleb Crain, the New York Times Book Review ). (The New York Times ' "featured author" section on Mailer offers an archive of reviews and profiles from the paper.)
Then Fodor's floored me with the revelation that New York wasn't a city at all, but a "mosaic of grand contradictions."
What's striking, as Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (1996), is how tenaciously we cling to "intensive motherhood," as she calls this ambitious mission, despite its increasing impracticality and despite how guilty it can make us feel.