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"Now, just a few short years later, the Clinton team is defensively and guiltily struggling to ignore the world's largest country, and top US officials disingenuously profess not to be worried by the sight of Russian blackjack bombers flying over Norway in a nose-thumbing gesture at the West."
They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)
) And while Wag the Dog and Primary Colors have taken disrespect for American politicians to levels undreamed of since the nose-thumbing days of the counterculture, political satire is still a rare enough bird in this country for a sighting to be cause for joy.