Word: insightfulness
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...bride-to-be Suzanne with plots of his own, he acts more like an lago than a Prospero. Karen Macdonald's Suzanne follows his lead--spleen overbalances sweetness. Harry Murphy's smug Count and Cheryl Ginannini's hoarse, pouting Countess are closer to the mark--he displays all the insight of a brontosaurs, she the passivity of a wildcat. These are Beaumarchais' hollow hulks of aristocracy waiting for someone...
...never asks why students in their teens decide to give up their twenties for the grind of endless school and the care of dying patients. The psychology of his classmates is entirely absent. Conversations are included only to post straw men or to make points; they rarely give insight into the speakers. As far as LeBaron can tell, his classmates are there only because they are fourth generation HMS or the children of the faculty...
...taken seriously. It was somewhat akin to reading a sociological study of elevator passengers. Arlen also wrote a great deal about news and how television had changed the way we receive our information, and about Vietnam coverage and other such "news" events. He wrote well and with great insight. Suddenly there was meaning in the mundane...
When Cohen, Greenhouse and Pressler get back together after a few weeks of separation, their music sounds as fresh as if it were their first tour. Each of the three brings his own insight to every performance: after 25 years, they have developed enough familiarity and confidence to follow one another's inspirations as they occur. The result is an ever-new sound on stage. Greenhouse comments. "When we play the Ravel Trio for our 30th anniversary, it won't sound anything like the way we played it on our 25th...
...great deal about the trade. "From eight until ten every morning, we'd read the papers and talk about politics," Eidenberg recalls. "It was a one-on-one seminar in American politics in the fifties and sixties." For the man who was educated in the Midwest. Hardeman's insight into Texas hardball politics "was a real eye-opener. It was important for me to realize that politics was tough...