Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there wasnt a believable human relationship in it. His last two films, Celebrity and Deconstructing Harry, launched some dead-on potshots at the empty hysteria of modern life, but they ultimately amounted to very good one-line jokes, prompting unfair reflection that Allen had become too bitter and insular for his own good...
...Harvard in 1965, Gore couldn't be completely insular. It was difficult for any student to escape the daily barrage of national and international affairs. The war in Vietnam had just begun to receive intense, critical coverage in the national media...
Mann's film, The Insider, which opens around the country next week, is also a drama about credibility. So the movie asks if Bergman can trust the insular and somber Wigand, who says that Brown & Williamson, the tobacco company where he once worked as chief of research, knowingly added cancer-causing chemicals to its products. Can Wigand trust Bergman, who keeps pushing him to go public with his story, though it cost him his severance pay, his peace of mind and his marriage? Can Bergman trust Wallace? And can anybody trust 60 Minutes, the most lustrous of TV newsmagazines...
Giuliani's Censorship Idealistic, Insular...
...unfortunate that Bolek Kabala sides with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in "The Brooklyn Stink" (Opinion, Oct. 15). Kabala's and Giuliani's viewpoint that publicly funded art should not offend anyone's religious affiliation is both idealistic and insular...