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That was the perplexed comment that greeted my first halting efforts to explain the Clinton scandal to my children, ages 6 and 9. I promptly began quoting the profundity to my friends and reflecting indignantly, along with the rest of America, on what a poor role model the overgrown youth in the White House is for our youth.
"The profundity of an artist such as we won't see again for some time" (Sarah Kaufman, the Washington Post ). Critics forgive his use of goofy gimmicks--he improvises a dance to his own heartbeat, which is amplified by a device affixed to his chest--focusing instead on the credibility he has given modern dance, having switched from classical ballet in midcareer.
It is no criticism of Solomon's lively and fascinating book that she has not sought to explain how an array of the most ordinary objects--a cordial glass, a bubble pipe, an egg, some glass disks, a map--should release powers of evocation in one another and quiver into an image that overcomes the personal and the biographical to attain universality, profundity, beauty, and truth.
And are Kinsky's rippling, Philip Glass-like progressions meant to suggest profundity or empty pretentiousness?
He speaks, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden, in "a hushed, gee-whiz semi-whisper that's meant to convey profundity but ...