If you have incarnated power for a long time — Mr. Wade was president for 12 years, and dominated the political opposition for nearly 30 years before — it does not simply slip away because somebody else now sits at the center of the blaring motorcade.
Through July 3. "Power Incarnate: Allan Stone's Collection of Sculpture From the Congo".
But "Power Incarnate" does a good deal more than show the influence of African objects on European modernism.
Judging from the comments in the visitors' book at the Bruce Museum, "Power Incarnate: Allan Stone's Collection of Sculpture from the Congo" is a very popular show.
With his trumpet and his profound cheeks ("Go on, just try to hate America," those cheeks said), he was soft power incarnate.
"Hanging" ends with Mr. Nut, radicalized after a night spent among New York's hungriest and most desperate, facing off against power incarnate, in the form of a villainous businessman named Mr. System.
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When I told Obama that Joseph Nye thought he was soft-power incarnate but nevertheless leaned toward Clinton, he nodded, and then coolly shot back: "It is interesting to me that this conversation does not come up with any of the other candidates.
It's precisely the actor's own power to incarnate Davis as one artist to another that makes the movie's reliance on artificial dramatic conventions unnecessary, even absurd.
Back in August 2006, while I was covering the reaction of "the Cuban-American street" to the news that their devil incarnate, Fidel Castro, had ceded power and was possibly on the verge of death, I got a teensy taste of the incredible euphoria -- sometimes bordering on hysteria -- built up over 47 long, frustrating years.
