Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Serpent and the Rainbow comes out of a collaboration between two Harvard graduates, executive producer, Rob Cohen '71 and author of the book, Wade Davis '75. In an interview with The Crimson, Cohen and Davis shed some insight on the making of the film...
...assistant editor of Middle East Insight magazine, Raymond Stock, also praises Mylroie's political arguments. "She's argued forcefully and persuasively that the U.S. should back Iraq in the war and abandon its supposedly neutral position," he says. The originality of her scholarship lies in the professor's "unabashedely pro-Iraqi stance...
...play a positive role, however. It can show the effectiveness of a campaign's advertising or a candidate's thematic approaches, and it can sense how trends are developing throughout the course of a campaign. But in presenting the polls, the media, more often than not, clouds its insight into campaign issues with a barrage of hard numbers. Gerry Chervinsky of Cambridge-based KRC Research, a national polling organization, says, "the way the media looks at polls is confusing. Comparing different polls up and down, day to day is nonsense...
...would lift the series above a mere catalog of Great Moments from TV's Past. The uninspired narration does little more than scoot us from one clip to the next ("Dragnet was the first hit police show. It has been followed by a succession of cop shows."), with little insight into how the medium got from there to here. The series focuses, wisely, on programming rather than the business of TV; still, somewhere amid the clips of Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason and Playhouse 90, one longs for at least some discussion of how networks came into being...
...partner, Composer Richard Rodgers, had five shows, including their musicals Oklahoma! and Allegro, playing on Broadway. (For all his popularity, Hammerstein had a yearly income of $500,000 -- roughly half of Lloyd Webber's present monthly royalties.) We wrote then that Hammerstein's words "carry a gentle insight and a sentimental catch in the throat to millions of people who are only dimly aware of his name." Within a decade, though, such sentimentality had given way to a more hard-edged style. In a 1960 cover article on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot...