Word: inwardness
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Paul Simon: The Rhythm of the Saints (Warner Bros.). Intricate Brazilian rhythms; complex, inward-looking lyrics. And something else too: good...
...Most prices are negotiable. Saving face is more important than telling the truth. Yet what President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is striving to achieve is unusually straightforward. Since his inauguration in December 1988, Mexico's 42-year-old leader has trained his formidable skills on awakening his country from inward-looking torpor to a world where market forces are increasingly international and interdependent...
...overcoming their traditional social rigidity; one's class, one's prospects in life remain remarkably fixed. European countries are also strongly xenophobic, especially hostile toward immigrants, which could become a major problem for the European Community. Nor is it yet clear whether the Community will continue to be inward-looking or seek a greater global role. It is also far from certain to what extent a Europe guided by the Brussels bureaucracy will be dedicated to vigorous free enterprise and whether it will achieve true political union...
...Inward Intensity...
Hill's interest is the various and ever changing ways to define success. At first the story seems to look outward, at how anyone's ambitions reveal his or her class and background. But the focus gradually shifts inward, to a deepening psychological exploration of a writer of anonymous suicide threats, and reveals how much a successful person may depend on the reaction of others to provide a missing sense of self-worth. At the center of Hill's plot is an outdoor-extravaganza staging of a medieval "mystery" play -- a cunning hint from Hill that his work, like...