Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving ahead too quickly, son. In order for a barber to be accepted, his comments on the world situation must be perceptive. He must have insight. But above all, his customers must have confidence in what he says. Confident that he knows more about what is going on than anyone--yes, anyone else. A barber must know more than just how to cut hair...
...Margaret is never abandoned or alone. Vacuous Sterling Hayden is always standing by, ready to accept her debts, her neuroses, and her teen-age daughter. When Margaret finally makes the obvious choice between a healthy suitor and a sickly career, it is not because she has grown or gained insight during the picture. Rather, the film ends because Miss Davis has trotted through the emotional gamut and there is nothing more...
...noticed after his first wife died that his grief gave him "new insight" into Shakespeare. Every play revealed meanings he had not suspected-and Booth, no matter how deep his private misery, was never deaf to dramatic demands. Even in his drunken days, it was said, he managed to suit his intoxication to his part: he was "melancholy-drunk for Hamlet, sentimentally drunk for Othello, and savagely drunk for Richard III." Personal tragedy began to shape all his parts-and in such a way as to suggest that he was rooting out forever the elements that had brought misery...
...months ago, Barbara Morton-Stewart began to get a broader insight into her husband's nature and finances when he suddenly vanished from Birmingham, leaving her with a large staff of unpaid servants, a mountain of unpaid bills, and a tender note saying: "My darling Baba, I shall always love you. I am terribly sorry...
...Ruby the Barber is one very interesting guy. An avid follower of the bang tales, Ruby has, through the years, developed an amazing insight into the general sporting picture. He was, at one time, a tonsorial expert at a small parlor in The Big Town and in his day he has hobnobbed with many of the laudable figures in the world of athletics...