"The Larry Sanders Show" can seem fresh and funny all over again, and Mr. Shandling remains one of the most incisive commentators on the medium.
Nowadays, supposedly, it's the small screen that provides convincing characters, credible plots and incisive wit; the senior medium offers only crude stories, infantile rudery and mindless spectacle.
And she describes the history of cinema with a metaphor that seems to me an astonishingly incisive view of the medium's paradox: A strange thing has happened — while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed.
9.03pm BST 59 min: But then they launch a quick, incisive move, Lewandowski playing a medium-range one-two with Reus but miscontrolling the return when well placed, just outside the penalty area.
The incisive foramina (openings in the front part of the palate) are medium in length, and do not reach the first molars.
By that point, though, it was Ms. Lopez, with her long history of turning medium skill into maximum payoff, who was leading the panel, with incisive critiques and a genuinely nurturing presence missing since Paula Abdul left the show in 2009.
His apparently naive take was in fact incisive, since Tintin was always premised on a set of implicit borrowings and relocations from one medium to another.
In 1971, with a perfectly chosen question, Dick Cavett (whose interviews are one of the greatest bodies of work in television history and, for that matter, transcend the medium as a prime historical source as such) elicits, from the sixty-three-year-old Bette Davis, an incisive and illuminating view of the Hollywood of the high-studio era.
Both received incisive performances.
A brilliantly incisive analysis.
