Oddly, for a painter from such a poor country, there is a feeling of opulence and superabundance in his work, as people and objects balloon out to fill the painting space.When repeated by a grown-up interviewer Mr Botero greets the question about his trademark fat people with a roar of laughter: "That's the price you have to pay for being famous; people tend to oversimplify your work".
Banks and analysts say that may oversimplify the picture, but the trend is clear (see right-hand chart, above).As banks seek to compensate for this by invading the exchanges' turf, the exchanges are responding in three ways: joining forces, fighting for business and cutting fees.
To oversimplify a little, the performance of the world economy in 2011 depends on what happens in three places: the big emerging markets, the euro area and America.
Road-pricing, he says, is a middle-class fantasy dreamed up by "some dweeb in a dark room doing quantitative analysis".The dweebs say their critics oversimplify things.
To oversimplify: after independence in 1960, Congo was ruled so corruptly that the state atrophied.
But that's seems to wildly oversimplify matters.
To oversimplify, countries should liberalise unilaterally to enhance their economic welfare.
It is fast-paced and well-sourced but runs right from before the six-day war of 1967 to the present, and so has often to oversimplify.
It also, for some, demonstrates the risk that indices oversimplify and go further than the data warrant.
Yet a tendency to oversimplify complex issues might swiftly turn Japan's voters off, not to mention infuriate its neighbours.
To oversimplify her argument, democracy needs privacy to breathe.It is worth noting that not all persistent drones are a threat to privacy NASA's Global Hawk Earth science missions, for instance, are exactly what they claim to be: new tools for studying hurricanes and other natural phenomena.
