Word: insights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Feminist politics goes against the animal behaviorist's insight that females organize their lives around the getting of resources (food, shelter, nice things) while males organize themselves around the getting of females...
...explosion of one-person shows on New York City stages seems to belie it, there was a good reason the ancient Greeks introduced a second actor into the drama. The essence of theater is human interaction, not introspection. No amount of skill can give a monologue as much insight and texture as the best dialogue. Even at their best, solo acts are a triumph of economics over aesthetics...
...Helen Frankenthaler Prints" is a valuable collection of work by an artist who has had a productive and varied career. The diversity of the works--in terms of style, materials, and timespan--and the fascinating insight into the process of print-making will leave the viewer with a clear understanding of Frankenthaler and the importance of her work...
...confusion of FTH's image is compounded by its inclusion of a few well-written, powerful works. Sigfried Gold's ironic "Coherent Explanation of Straight While Male Sexuality" has some clever insights, its narrator complaining. "I can't stand straight men: they don't lust after me. All they want to do is win arguments with me or beat me at pool. I don't need that shit." Along a similar vein of psychological insight, Michael Manning, an acclaimed sex comic, explains his art through the statement, "I like the idea of humans and animals having sex together. We think...
...Camille Paglia alleges in The Crimson (Feb. 7, 1994), "[t]he standard of academic debate in this country is very low," then she must take her share of the blame for this situation. Lurching from soundbite to soundbite, Paglia mistakes overblown rhetoric and ad feminam attacks for analysis and insight...