Brooke Anderson, director of the Folk Art's Contemporary Center, sees the ABCD show as not only "splendid, aesthetically great work" but also as a chance to examine the links and contradictions between Dubuffet's art brut idea and the outsider art of today.

Its author has spent endless hours studying thousands of pages of Congressional testimony and exhibits with deep care and emerged with a hundred or so chapters examining contradictions in the investigative reports that lead to the conclusion that Foster shot himself in Fort Marcy Park, near Washington, on July 20, 1993.

The Ukrainian government voted on June 27 by 402 to 345 votes to postpone debating the Treaty until Sept. 15, in order to examine possible contradictions with Ukraine's declaration of independence of July 1990 [see p. 37617].

The show, which tries to examine in evocative and humorous ways the pressures, contradictions and complexities of American daily life, is very much tailored to Ms. Pauley's down-to-earth, always-curious style.

Instead, I hope I can help you not to be two conflicting people, but one person who is able to examine contradictions and who won't throw out the babies of social and spiritual connection with the bathwater of dogma and superstition.

The article, which is an excerpt from Wills's 1998 book "John Wayne's America," examines the complexities and contradictions of Wayne's enduring resonance as a cultural and political icon.