Word: insight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world of Severine's life and fantasies. Though Belle de Jour boggles the mind the first time around (audiences tend to dwell on peripheral ambiguities), the structural integrity becomes increasingly clear on repeated viewings (well worthwhile) and ends up simpler than many of Bunuel's other films; Bunuel's insight and humanity far transcends the realm of social allegory for which he is duly famous (Viridiana, Exterminating Angel). But this simplicity is sensed rather than understood, and Severine's final fantasy (romantic rather than masochistic) is a wholly satisfying resolution without lending itself to easy interpretation. Belle de Jour...
...There's not enough kindness in the world," whimpers the chunky lesbian, knocking back the booze. The worn insight is typical of the maundering dialogue in The Killing of Sister George, an autopsy of a homosexual affair. The heroine (Beryl Reid) is an actress with a single role: Sister George, a kindly, cuddly nurse on a British soap opera. Offscreen, she drops the smarmy smile and becomes an abrading machine running on alcohol and programmed for self-destruction...
...Double Helix is a perfect example of the new kind of journalism which has come to dominate the best-seller lists. Like Norman Mailer on the conventions, Watson is telling what happened as Watson saw it, as Watson likes to remember it. Thus, we are provided as much insight into the author as into the subject. And this is the way Watson intended it, for just as the new journalism proclaims that the story depends on the reporter, Watson writes in his introduction that science's steps forward "are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play...
Only rarely does the world have an opportunity to catch glimpses of the confused reality behind Communist China's facade, and last week China-watchers were poring over the transcript of a summer meeting in Peking that offered choice insight into the passions aroused by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The document, a Red Guard pamphlet obtained in Hong Kong, purports to be the minutes of a meeting of the Peking leadership with rival Red Guard factions from the still troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment...
...offered a hero who was carried to his destination on a frail raft pulled by swans. Unaware of the vacuum in space, the traveler had no difficulty breathing on the trip, but he did find that his weight lessened as he left the earth. That remarkable scientific insight by Godwin preceded Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity by many years...