Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probing questions today, Nelly is driven to explain how it is possible for people to ignore evil, to photograph a murder rather than stop it, to walk past a starving begger, eyes carefully averted. The questions are never answered--there are no answers--but out of the explanations come profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers," Wolf writes. Thus A Model Childhood becomes above all a plea to reconnect ourselves with our past, and teach...
...profound psychological density brought to America by its communications works in sometimes contradictory ways. The images of blacks on network TV, for example, can encourage tolerance by overriding local or regional bigotries; for all the talk of a resurrected Ku Klux Klan, it is only a vestige and parody of the huge, white-sheeted army that once lynched with impunity over much of the South. The more profound bigotries, of course, easily manage to survive the weak civilizing influences of an interracial sitcom. At the same tune, the new, closely worked symbolism of American nationality raises expectations, sharpening all social...
Throughout, the film is wise and funny, and uninsistently, even casually, profound in what it has to say about the perdurability of art. -By Richard Schickel
Ronald Reagan does not wear plaid suits very often anymore; he looks very presidential. Even his oft-parodied pompadour seems more subtle than in the past. He is a man of profound wrinkles, cavernous creases that make him the embodiment of the weathered but healthful land he calls home...
Beneath the gaiety that illumines most of the letters is a profound despair, half mock, half real, at her demanding choice of profession. Like almost all writers, Colette found that simple, clear sentences are the most difficult. "I have now begun my scene . . . for the eighth time," she complained to one correspondent. "I've finished-or I think I've finished," she remarked about another story. "But not without torment! The last page, precisely cost me my entire first day [of vacation]-and I defy you, when you read it, to suspect this. Alas, that a mere...