Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Two views of the androgynous East -- one myopic and muddled, the other acute and majestic...
...BOTTOM LINE: Two takes on the androgynous East -- one muddled and myopic, the other acute and majestic...
...BOTTOM LINE: A myopic, self-righteous take on the politics of ivory sheds little light on Africa's ecological tragedy...
...well-informed and well-educated elite can only watch and weep as an Attorney General candidate who did nothing illegal is sacrificed to a telephone-wielding mob of radio talk-show listeners, and sound long-term proposals are torpedoed by myopic self-interest. Such idiocy will not stop until government answers only to those capable of calling it to account. Only the well-informed have the ability to do so, yet in a democracy, their influence is hopelessly diluted...
...blind into The Crying Game after hitting a Hollywood dead end with two flops (High Spirits and We're No Angels). In doing so he resolved the theme of feminine mystique that preoccupied him in Mona Lisa and The Miracle, two movies about men who create their own myopic visions of the women they love. Then blind luck spotted Davidson, who gave The Crying Game its eerie emotional resonance. Some people have a magnetic lure, the movie says and Davidson shows. "At first Jaye was shaking," says Jordan of the filming. "But an extraordinary quality came through: an elegance...