Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And therein lies the problem of the A.R.T'.s Ivanov. Yeremin may want his actors to fade like tiny points of light into the world around them, but Chekov's text is meant to act as a magnifying glass, to make the world of social conventions and thinly veiled subtexts...
Harvard's antiquated hiring system, a lack of positive relationships with the senior faculty and a sense of "professional isolation."
This was, of course, an illusion, maybe even a dangerous one. It is writer-director Barry Levinson's business in Liberty Heights to shatter that illusion, pick up the shards and rearrange them into a somewhat more realistic, though scarcely revolutionary, pattern. The result is a loose, lively, lovely film...
The irony, of course, is that the affliction of adolescence is traditionally marked by a pronounced sense of isolation. At some critical moment in every proto-adult life comes a lonely, anguished, heartfelt plea: "Nobody understands me!" How can today's teens truly experience this tortured rite of passage when...
Don't overlook depression. Social isolation or the death of friends and family can shatter anyone's mental state but is particularly difficult to bear with advancing age. Even patients with clear-cut dementia and depression are less confused when their depression is treated.