“The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.”
Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer
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Nothing If Not Critical (1991)
“The one central character of the whole explosive saga to survive, somehow, the traumatic after-events.”
Of Bill Voce; The Fast Men (1982)
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