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Then the music changed — chords crashed discordantly and Omicron slipped onstage, twirling its mustache from behind its collared cape.

For people convicted of crimes, the commitment to rehabilitating them co-existed discordantly with laws that barred them from the markers of full citizenship, such as juries, voting, and many jobs.

This show includes 25 works: wall-mounted or free-standing, indoors or outdoors, minimal or lush, jet-black or discordantly colored, as small as a softball or as high as a giraffe.

That admission was startling for Trump, who for two weeks had struck a discordantly optimistic tone about the pandemic that endangered his presidency.

He says, perfunctorily and discordantly, “The idea that government can impose a balance between the obligations and rights of the private sector and working Americans has never worked.”