Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Edwin Mroz, executive vice president of the International Peace Academy, said yesterday that Fisher's "insight, his understanding of the diplomatic and military dynamics of world politics, and his open-minded approach to options for dispute settlement make him a unique resource to the Academy in its professional work...
...editorial pages are where the differences between the two papers are most marked. In the hands of Philip Geyelin and Meg Greenfield, the Post has the best editorial page in the country. It achieves an urbanity of tone, reasoning conversationally with lawmakers and officials, and frequently surprises with unexpected insight. A bright, idiomatic tone has crept into the Times editorial page since Max Frankel became its editor on Jan. 1. He seems determined to modulate that Ugh, Big Chief Has Spoken voice of the Times...
...Quirky Insight. Mikey and Nicky is the work of three gifted people-the two leading actors and the writerdirector, who has been responsible for two of the funniest and most startling comedies of the decade, A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid. But here Falk and Cassavetes seem at sea, and May's talent gets lost in all the surrounding craziness, much of which has been well documented. Mikey and Nicky was begun in 1973, but is just now being released after numerous lawsuits. Paramount sued May for breach of contract, trying to repossess a film they already owned...
...Chinatown. This is the only film made in American in recent years which compares in insight and emotional power to the Hollywood films of the 30s and 40s. (I include the work of Robert Altman). Polanski turns the traditional detective film on its head. Chinatown is really about the education of Jack Nicholson, who as the film develops learns more and more about the structure of power in Los Angeles, but discovers that the more he knows the less he can help Faye Dunaway. A very pessimistic perspective, but very effective...
Welles comes off as a man seeped in, and limited to, a theatrical attitude towards Art. (He never tires of adoring his cohorts.) O'Hara and Quinlan seems to work for him only because they make for good melodrama. When you think about this insight as a guide to his career, it makes sense...