Working mostly with pencil but also with watercolor and collage, he improvises all kinds of disjunctive images and styles: buildings drawn with the finesse of an architectural rendering, passages of sea or sky that look like 18th-century engraving and antic little people who might have wandered in from planet Dubuffet playing elegantly drawn pianos or engaging in unvarnished sex acts.
Working mostly with pencil, he produces all kinds of disjunctive images and styles: buildings drawn with an architect's finesse, passages of sea or sky that look like 18th-century engraving, and antic little people who might have wandered in from planet Dubuffet playing pianos or engaging in unvarnished sex acts (Johnson).
Rumsfeld had apparently come to see Adelman's advice as a bit too unvarnished.
This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony.
Certainly, the neurotic Ed Kleban in "A Class Act" never gets anything but the unvarnished truth from Sophie, the lover-turned-best-friend character that Ms. Graff plays.
The art critic John Berger has argued that looking at animals gives us access to an unvarnished truth, whereas Mooallem suggests that looking at animals is hardly an act of pure observation.
Many of these were unvarnished, emotionally direct performances that reached beyond country audiences to influence rock acts like the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
"As they have also said previously, such presidential records shall remain confidential to protect the president's ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel, but will ultimately be released in accordance with the Presidential Records Act".
This is a violent, unvarnished, cruel world of sexism and bigotry, yet one that abounds with individual acts of kindness and compassion.
This is the unvarnished story.
