Word: insights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another viewer of Paths to Glory offered the insight: "It was good in that it was short." One should always wonder about any film whose highest achievement is being short...
...things I've experienced with him is a lot of actute political insight and knowledge about the Washington, D.C. scene," Casey says. "And that's something I'm looking forward to working with...
...book The Culture of Disbelief, about the hostility against religion in American public life. Clinton was so affected by the work that he returned to Washington in September and gave a series of speeches about how hard it is to bring about change in a modern society, an insight that proved prophetic of the year that followed. The speeches, which focused not on programs and policies but on the family-centered values that strengthen the country, were well received and helped his approval ratings reach record levels last autumn...
...disparage her exboyfriend's sexual equipment from beyond the grave--"It's the size of my little finger...I'm not wanting the nail, just the finger!") made me think America should resuscitate the great tradition of reading pamphlets, so that every citizen could benefit from Sedaris' uncanny insight into our times. Those weird, brilliant little vignettes should be sold separately at 25 cents a pop at check-out counters and newsstands, to be read on coffee bread, or the subway, in the dentist's office. Like confetti, Sedaris' bizarre creations would litter the mean streets of our cities. Several...
...Soviet military strategists. Said Robert Gates, a career Soviet analyst and CIA director for President Bush: "There were a lot of debates at the time over Soviet military strategy and doctrine in terms of how their forces would be used in a war." Polyakov's purloined documents "gave us insights into how they talked to each other about these issues, whether they thought that victory in a nuclear war was possible." The answer, thankfully, was no. Polyakov proved that Soviet military leaders were not crazy warmongers. They were as afraid as we were. This insight may have prevented U.S. miscalculations...