Kazan believes the first film became an international hit because "it spoke to everyone.
The book is most definitely troubling, even 40 odd years after its original publication, because it speaks of an outside to the norm.
It is also notable because it speaks to a recurring concern in this book with the fungible meanings of objects and the fluidity of identity.
This is important because it speaks to a disconnect in the entire debate we've been having about women and reproduction.
The Conservative party survives, despite some of the worst political leadership of this or any generation, because it speaks for a large and irreducible section of English popular opinion.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet It is also notable because it speaks to a recurring concern in this book with the fungible meanings of objects and the fluidity of identity.
Similarly, his claim that none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had experience in elective office, when a great number of them did, is significant not only because it is false but because it speaks to a particular view of history and politics.
I don't always remember album reviews, but Robert Christgau's response to Tapestry has long stuck in my head; it's an excellent piece of writing of course, but it lingers because it speaks of a battle that, more than 40 years on, many female musicians are still fighting.
There's a new alternative, one that's neatly summed up in a question that A-Ron has been asking himself lately: "How do I turn my lifestyle into a business?" The answer he came up with is worth paying attention to because it speaks to a significant but little-noted development in contemporary culture.
This is important because it speaks to a range of male behaviours that have often been dismissed as minor nuisances – flashing, stealing underwear, making obscene phone calls – but that are all acts men do in order to reassure themselves of their power and potency.
The flip-flop is of interest, because it speaks to a pattern of flip-flops.
