Word: inward
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...extends himself only to express himself. Alone among rock's great figures -- and even in that company he is one of the greatest -- Morrison is adamantly inward. And unique. Although he freely crosses musical boundaries -- R. and B., Celtic melodies, jazz, rave-up rock, hymns, down-and-dirty blues -- he can unfailingly be found in the same strange place: on his own wavelength...
Chaplin, the fourth of eight children of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill, and Thierree, who has performed for such talents as Federico Fellini and Peter Brook, share a sense of theater as a primal force and of spectacle as something inward. For them it is not spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines...
...neoisolationist. For one thing, in several cases the messengers have internationalist credentials as good as his own. In May, William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, wrote a guest column for the New York Times calling on the U.S. to "start selectively disengaging" from overseas commitments, "a psychological turn inward" and a Marshall Plan "to put our house in order." Four weeks later, the Times's own James Reston argued that "the main threat to our nation's security ((comes)) from within" and urged Bush to build a "new American order." Meanwhile, Peter Peterson, chairman of both the Council on Foreign...
KQED promises to handle Harris' execution tastefully. But you can't force good taste into people's living rooms. There's nothing anyone can do about the "Gas the Bastard" parties, the "Every Time He Twitches" drinking games, the inward smiles of satisfaction...
...licked, the U.S. should "disengage" from all remaining messes across the oceans. Ted Galen Carpenter advocates "strategic independence . . . free from the dangerous and expensive burdens of obsolete security commitments." Jeane J. Kirkpatrick sees a chance for the U.S. finally to become a "normal country in a normal time," turning inward to deal with its many problems at home...