Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triumph of Distant Thunder is Ray's humanism, his careful, measured naturalism. The film, shot in color, is beautiful and direct, sophisticated not in plot but insight. In the last scene, Ananga tells Gangacharan she is pregnant...
...convincing chapter in the book is one based on his own observations and experience in free schools. He argues that "open" schools can be just as politically indoctrinating as traditional schools, and are all the more dangerous because they bill themselves, and are perceived to be progressive. Kozol's insight surfaces when he is playing the role of social investigator, not polemicist...
...SCRIPT IS full of comic routines and caustic one-liners. Humor is the basis of the characters' lives, providing them with accurate insight and comfortable escape. Norman, the straight mathematician, and Shelley, his spacey girlfriend, are clearly self-parodies. Mike and Cootie, a Rosenkrantz-and-Guildenstern type duo, are careful, conscious performers. But other characters are confused about the interpretation of their lines. When Kathy has problems with her boyfriend, she complains...
Brownmiller, with extensive documentation and enviable insight, studies rape from every possible standpoint--historical, psychological, anthropological, sociological...She shatters every myth surrounding rape--myths that have prevailed since the beginning of time, myths that have rendered us incapable of viewing rape in its proper political perspective...
...intelligence, a scrupulous study of freedom and the sometimes questionable requirements of the "civilizing process." Every Man, a prizewinner at this year's Cannes Festival, is a casebook of insensitivity. Every character is vigorously and grossly caricatured. The short supply of ideas is presented with all the insight of a caption in Ripley's Believe...