There's a wistfulness underlying the plagiarism panic, a longing for the era of journalism before today's curation and aggregation sites, which appropriate at will and which extend reach at the expense of stature.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
"Keaton and Chaplin reflected an era where the anxieties and underlying vocabulary of people's longings were physical.
So the tale Capote tells is one of superficial cosmopolitan glamour and the unfulfilled longing for genuine glamour underlying it.
This "crack" is universal: humanity will always be reconciled to life as it is while, at the same time, longing for a simple, unitary truth, underlying existence, that provides a deep and consoling explanation.
An underlying story we have been hearing: people are longing to be seen.
So the je ne sais quoi of French style will remain just that, although that won't stop us longing for the self-assurance that underlies the mix of innocent mischief and sophistication expressed through French women's clothes.
Sex, longing and loss: Those are the words the composer Ricky Ian Gordon chose to describe the underlying themes of his music in an interview with the playwright Richard Nelson on Sunday evening at the Peter B. Lewis Theater in the Guggenheim Museum.
