Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there." The dapper Felder, who charges $450 per hour (compared with Mitchelson's $350), attributes his success in part to a no-nonsense way of handling the rich and famous. "You can't fawn over a celebrity," he insists. "Most of them are narcissistic, self-involved, with little insight into what's going on in their life. You have to be able to tell them...
...WONDER YEARS (ABC) The nostalgia is ladled on a bit thick, but this wry, affectionate comedy about a twelve-year-old's angst in the late '60s has wit and insight -- and the most believable family scenes...
...assumption that nations are separate unto themselves. Today all countries are interconnected despite their territorial claims, he argues, and "saying that the Japanese have a pollution problem is ! like saying there's a bad leak in your end of the boat." Of course, hundreds of futurists share that insight. Some of them, when pressed hard enough, may even present a solution or two. That is the Asimov difference: without prompting, he offers remedies by the ream. The man who predicted assembly-line robotics in 1939, coined the term psychohistory -- "the prediction of future trends in history through mathematical analysis...
Professor of English and Folklore Joseph Harris says Mitchell's commentary on Horn is "a brilliant piece of literary detective work." Mitchell's insight, says Harris, showed that when Horn wrote her story, she structured it with certain Biblical passages, and in so doing unwittingly wrote the first Swedish novel...
Even for those who will never travel abroad or become international salesmen, learning a foreign language is a valuable experience. A knowledge of the culture of other countries deepens one's understanding of international issues. Those who have an insight into other cultures will have a broader perspective on America and its ties with other countries...