Speaking of which, as an erstwhile employee of the paper, Lost in Showbiz enjoys a good tabloid contradiction as much as anyone.
The message is in the bad news-good news contradiction: the less safe we feel, the more likely we'll play it safe on Election Day by sticking with the happy face we know.
With a slight lowering of the ideological temperature, there has been far more willingness to see in the Soviet experiment not just horror and death but good intentions, contradictions, and commonalities with Western modernity.
Pascal Lamy, the European Union trade minister, praised the food, saying, "This meal proves there is no contradiction in good taste, good care of the environment and growth for the developing world".
Ruth understood my contradictions – she didn't believe you could be a good writer without contradictions.
Guillen explained himself in a 30-minute conversation that, in typical Guillen fashion, was a whirlwind of good points and contradictions.
He delights in iconoclasm — until the moment he needs a hug — and he's self-aware enough to mine that contradiction for good material.
Even in a city premised on cross-pollination and contradiction, where good forces and bad forces are often allowed to co-mingle, outsiders could never accept the Calliope on its own terms.
"Writing was always my inmost way of being in the world," she says, but that made rejections increasingly painful: "I suffered a good deal from the contradiction between knowing writing was the job I was born for and finding nowhere to have that knowledge confirmed".
The survey created a bit of a buzz and commentators rushed to offer explanations for the apparent contradiction of good numbers and bad vibrations.
