The Ticking is the Bomb is, an important, urgent, timely book, and one that I had to read. I re-learned a lesson from that ridiculous old cliche: you can't judge a book by its cover
Murrill's animal sculptures are much closer to monochrome abstraction, in the painting world, than they are to realism. The surfaces of her bronze works are meticulous, smooth and seductive.
The government system we have created in recent decades seems to have made it impossible for a president to achieve great things; everything must be done in small steps with fighting along the way.
