Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence, though, is not gory. Rather, it is cold and stark, emblematic of their shattered family and fragmented society. Vilmure approaches violence with the insight of an older, more weathered author, and the awe and pain of a child on first discovery...
...Woods does, gloriously, is make the case for what musicals might be, blending innovation and old-fashioned storytelling into an elixir of delight. It makes audiences think of Freud and Jung, of dark psychological thickets and sudden clearings of enlightenment, even as they roar with laughter. Its basic insight, plainly influenced by the revisionist scholarship of Bruno Bettelheim, is that at heart, most fairy tales are about the loving yet embattled relationship between parents and children. Almost everything that goes wrong -- which is to say, almost everything that can -- arises from a failure of parental or filial duty, despite...
Although we've heard many of Gurney's points and punchlines before--some in John Cheever stories, others on Father Knows Best--the pace of the vignettes and the flashes of insight served up from time to time make The Dining Room touching, as well as entertaining, fare...
...being a female instrumentalist in the male bastion of jazz. She responds to what must be the umpteenth question on the subject first with mock agony ("I feel like a man trapped in a woman's body") but then goes on to discuss the obstacles she has faced with insight--and without self-pity...
B.S.O.H member. (loudly interrupting) "Ah, yes, I see what you are saying, and in fact I have found in my experience in writing literature and plays, many of which have garnered me quite a slew of honors, that my symbolic insight--though often intended--sometimes evolves independent of me as an artist. In a way this relates to the experience of artistry as a whole, as I have found in my experience as a well-known director...