Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director JoAnne Akalaitis, this play tried to place nuclear power and weaponry in the context of Western history, instead of viewing it as some sort of aberration of modern politics. While dated even then by its nuclear freeze sentiments, Dead End Kids still made a good stab at some insight into the atomic age. With any luck, Akalaitis has already seen Kopit's play and is scouring her own work for similar flaws. If not Dead End Kids may end up as another worthy idea melted down by overheated artistic ambition...
...professors who serve students well, or for reforms in the structure of undergraduate education will fall on deaf ears. In arguing against divestment, Bok simply evokes concerns about the financial health of the University. In defending tenure policies or educational requirements, Dean Michael Spence need only lay claim to insight into departmental excellence to silence opposition. But who is it that determines financial priorities, who consensts, and why? Who decides whether a department has achieved its primary objective of educating its students? Why is there no adequate apparatus for some student input into basic decisions? Why is one of America...
...story with so many U-turns and abrupt stops that it leaves the reader befuddled about what to believe or not to believe about Roth's fictional world. Roth, an old master, has created a story without the traditional beginning, middle and end, and by doing so he provides insight into...
...ploy, because Roth plays with the reader's fundamental desire to accept the world on the pages of the book. It somehow leaves the reader with an empty feeling to discover that Roth has published a novel written by one of his fictional characters. Yet this duality provides an insight into Roth's own mind...
...typical film, though, does not provoke a political free-for-all. Many conservatives have taken up arms against Platoon. In the far-right Washington Times' Insight magazine, John Podhoretz castigates it as "one of the most repellent movies ever made in this country." The film, he says, "blackens the name and belittles the sacrifice of every man and woman who served the United States in the Viet Nam War (including Stone)." Politicians are eager to return the salvos. Former Senator Gary Hart, aware of the electorate's fondness for presidential candidates with movie credentials, campaigns for the film by urging...