Like many of his kind, Abstractionist Hilaire Hiler (rhymes with kill-care smiler) writes more understandably than he paints.
In The Camera Never Blinks Rather writes, "I am not, never have been, a natural smiler.
Recalls Basil Lee Whitener, a member of Nixon's graduating class (1937) and now a Democratic Congressman from North Carolina: "He was no smiler then, quite the contrary.