Word: insight
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...Bradley travels with the Knicks, he reminisces and analyses about almost every aspect (some more hopeful than profound) that basketball and society bring to bear on each other. Especially early in the book, his attempts at insight proceed by a kind of historical method. He sifts through the histories of players, arenas, and American culture, with no particular emphasis on his own life. Of his better-known teammates he provides biographical accounts, which are almost always ironic reversals of the Chip Hilton hero-makes-good stories. He traces the life of Willis Reed from cotton-picking in Mississippi to knee...
Mack's respect for Lawrence's intellect, charm, and sense of play yields a portrait that is not only comprehensive but compassionate, and never smacks of facile, "shrinky" cheapness. Several admirers have called Lawrence a Hamlet for our times. Mack demonstrates how the overdose of insight and self-consciousness that kept Hamlet from ever doing anything in another epoch forced Lawrence to take action in a compulsive...
...blearily down one of the tracks that lead away from the house. I would fumble for some simple form of greeting but invariably the person spoken to would look surprised and come to a complete halt, expecting me to engage him in conversation. Finally I had a great anthropological insight. On occasions like this one does not speak. A low grunt of acknowledgement is permissable for those compelled to formality. So deep was my prior cultural conditioning that I never quite got over the strain of keeping silent. The next visitor to my village will no doubt be surprised...
...places the cadaver of his true love Ines on the throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep of a Verdi, or the psychological insight of a Moussorgsky. Pasatieri Instead has written in a bland, old-fashioned style that might be suitable for an O. Henry short story- say, The Gift of the Magi. Easy as it is to listen to, Pasatieri's music simply fails the text...
...movie ends on a note of tentative renewal. If the despair that has gone before seems too familiar, Jenny's fleeting realization that love is the only salvation seems both easy and forced. The scene that brings her to this insight is a tender sickbed interlude between her grand mother and her ailing grandfather, but it is too frail to be entirely persuasive...