Chagnon, characteristically, is unrepentant.
Goode, characteristically, is relishing the battle ahead.
But California's approach, characteristically, is different.
"How rich," he cries, characteristically, "is Shakespeare's imagination that it can give rise to such a variety of interpretations!" The effect of this exposition of the sexual exuberance of the plays is, in fact, exhilarating and even moving: all human life is indeed in Shakespeare's plays.
Recer, characteristically, was unbowed.
But Miró, characteristically, was alarmed.
Even if there are hidden ambitions, characteristically he isn't divulging much: "All I want really is more of the same," he says, "I'd like to do more exhibits and books.
Characteristically he admitted he was totally to blame.
Characteristically, he was able to embrace Lady Continence, as he put it, only in the context of a much larger rethinking of the nature of sexuality.
He calculated that salvation lay within 250 miles, and, characteristically, he was wide of the mark -- it was almost 400 miles off.
