Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another chapter gives a refreshing insight into Roy Eisenhardt, the progressive president of the Oakland A's--one of the few baseball executives who cares more about their players and the state of the game than about making money from it. Angell shows that Eisenhardt considers baseball not as merely another tidy, profitable investment, but rather as an activity that can bring joy to thousands and provide a badly needed diversion from our daily lives...
...just as the audience and, seemingly, the playwright himself cannot decide whether the laughable-sounding book under consideration is insight or eyewash, so it is hard to say whether Speed-the-Plow is an outcry against Hollywood or a cynical apologia from a man who, in real life, is finishing one Hollywood film and about to start another. Mamet has said that by being oblique, even obscure, he forces spectators to think. At least some playgoers, however, yearn for a writer straightforward enough to have the courage of his own convictions...
...Hance, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in that beleaguered state. While Hance, 45, had no mandate or inclination to negotiate production cuts on the part of Texas or the U.S., he went to the meeting to "share our experience ((and)) give them our insight on how prices could be stabilized." Texans, who have felt neglected by the rest of the U.S. in recent years, sometimes like to point out that if their state were a member of OPEC, it would rank among the group's largest producers, trailing only the Saudis, the Iraqis...
...unknowingly abandons to their murder. At the end, Macbeth and Macduff duel in silhouette, then tumble behind a row of soldiers, so there is momentary doubt about who felled whom. But surely almost everyone knows the plot: such pseudo surprise is no substitute for the deeper astonishment of fresh insight into two of the great archetypes in world drama...
...insight that biology has greatly exacerbated the complications of the teen-age years indicates that our social system and our anatomies have been working at cross purposes. Although children are maturing earlier and earlier, we are detaining them in high school as long as ever. As a result, people who are ready and able to assume adult lives continue to be treated as children...