This is a time when the weird, the peculiar and strange are seen as signs of originality and talent in art. 
The myriad influences are easily seen in his paintings and unhappily impeded the originality and directness of his thought and vision.
His originality of phrasing and tonal nuance continues to expand, and rarely fails him even at the most headlong tempos.
In recent years, our connection of earlier times persisted only sporadically, and then only by means of long, often inebriated, telephone calls, in which his real freshness and originality just about came across, interlaced with the endless relaying of jokes and anecdotes.
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