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Writing recently in The New Yorker , Calvin Tompkins complained that the 1980s paintings lacked the "messy viscous slathers of pigment, the turbulence and turmoil, ...
On the contrary, they call attention to a truth less honest advisers have preferred to obscure and parents only half want to hear: that child rearing is a messy art of compromise and contradictions, full of uncertainty.
To him (and many others), this ironically brutal confession of impotence sums up the messy, unresolved feelings of his generation.
Jumbled, messy, and "frustrating to read" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ) is how most reviewers describe this rushed-to-press book about the JonBenet Ramsey murder.
This irrelevance of genes is why surrogate motherhood is so messy.