Word: insightfulness
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...alex either. Aside from Portnoy's voice-over now and then, about the only thing indicating that this is the visualization of a monologue is that Dick Benjamin looks alike as both the older and younger Portnoy. But it might have been an overnight, not an insight...
...like to think the movie's lack of insight is due mainly to the special difficulty of transferring this novel into film. The filmmakers make this difficult to believe. Michael Legrand's score comes on like Muzak's version of the Exodus theme, matching the subtlety of Lehman's own technique. Lehman rivals that other Catskill whizkid, Otto Preminger, and gives us so many establishing shots that he all but draws a map for us. If I little more optimistic about TV situation drama, I'd say that this movie was made...
...time was probably gained back by moments of sheer inspiration, scientific and otherwise. While searching for a small but powerful motor to run the new camera, a Polaroid engineer had the unusual insight one afternoon that the motors used to run his son's toy race cars might work. The next day Polaroid researchers invaded a Boston hobby shop and eventually modeled the SX-70 motor on an electric-train engine that they spotted there. While mulling over the complaint of a Polaroid owner, who had phoned all the way from Africa to protest that he could not find...
Irresistibly, you share a photograph with someone who is with you, and he or she gets a deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned. When you see the best picture I took of you, for example, you will know a little bit more, not just about yourself, but also about me. The fact that I could see you the way I did should be a comforting thing to you, because you know that a nebulous feeling you have about yourself, something you like about yourself, is transferable to someone else...
...letter of support from 17 of 19 members of the Newton delegation to Galbraith, former ambassador to India, said that the delegation feels Galbraith's position on economic affairs, his opposition to the war, and insight into the military-industrial complex more "truly represents the position of the people of Massachusetts than the equivocation of Edward Brooke...