Because the best abstract art has the power to cut through the rigid conventions of direct representation and externalize interior essences to show us things not as they look, but as they are.
The fear of lack of control and dreadful consequences overwhelm any sense of the abstract economic benefits of nuclear power, and images of workers in protection suits and news of elevated radiation levels in food and water further fuel antinuclear sentiment on a global scale.
General Musharraf is inching towards a destination that, in the abstract, appears acceptable: a power-sharing arrangement with Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister who leads Pakistan's most popular political party from exile.