Word: insightfulness
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Ronstadt has sharpened her insight and precision to the point that she can take a rather ordinary, straightforward number like Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" and make it into a serious love song. Her sensitive, full-bodied rendition is a sterling display of her emotional depth and complexity...
...central characters, Kosinski once fled the hell of war and totalitarianism; like them, he suffered unnamed-and perhaps unnameable-trauma. Cockpit seems to be a refraction of those anguished early years. If it is, then the novel's epigraph need not be from Dostoyevsky but from Auden, whose insight remains the subtext for all acts of vengeance: land the public know What all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return...
...must read and understand Banfield is not because of his theories on future and present orientation. Rather it is because Banfield was chairman of Nixon's task force on model cities, and his chief urban consultant, and his books present about the only insight to programs that seem so contrary to the needs of the poor...
...emotions--which, in the long run, means the only argument would be force, since no one can back down on feelings. Without some kind of factual support, theories cannot be tested. They only hang there, turning slowly, slowly in the wind, and in the end don't offer much insight into anything...
...only moment of insight into their dim schemes Freddy has wailed. "You're ten times more interested in each other than you are in me!" She's right, of course, and she might as well have added that even her fortune takes second place. As in all vaudeville meant to enshrine two male stars, their relationship is what the show is really about; the plot serves as its stage, and they walk all over it. The characters of Oscar and Nicky have been pieced together with bits not only from Laurel and Hardy, the first two-man comedy...