Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark days still in high power. And then, Kissinger told his patient listeners, the American people would probably wake up with the spring flowers to see what he and some others had long known: the power of the Soviet Union was drawing abreast of the U.S.'s-a profound shock after a quarter-century of overwhelming superiority...
...company members to the side. He doesn't let his dancers become too human, but neither will he, nor can he, obliterate their humanness. At times he lets human figures scuttle across the stage, marring the abstract canvas, interrupting the kaleidoscope, yet filling in what's humorous and profound in his work...
...classic photograph of a Latin American city. In the foreground stand shacks, slum alleys, and ragged brown children; in the background rise white concrete and glass office buildings. One can find such an image of inequality in Caracas, Lima, Mexico City, or San Juan. It appears to make a profound statement about contrasts in underdeveloped countries, until one recalls the famous photo poster of the Sixties showing dilapidated shacks, broken streets, and ragged black children. In that case, however, the city was Northeast Washington D.C., and the structure in the background was the dome of the Capitol...
...unemployment and inflation, but in a wholly destructive and superficial manner, diverting the electorate's attention from the roots of these problems in America's social structure. Instead, Wallace chooses to focus his appeal solely on divisive issues such as busing which are only manifestations of much more profound conflicts in American life. Jackson has been tripping over himself in his attempt to present himself as more reactionary than Wallace. Between the two of them they have articulated an insidious politics of hatred and have pandered shamelessly to racism and status-anxiety...
...question of reassessing the old hackneyed Simenon, for nothing has really changed. Letter to My Mother is a new sort of detective story, a kind of confessional mystery, predicated on the notion that human relationships are indeed hard to understand, that they take time to decipher, are full of profound feelings, etc. Unfortunately, this new kind of puzzle isn't nearly as interesting as a good murder mystery, nor is Simenon, the musing son, nearly as captivating as Commissaire Maigret, the plodding detective...