While Bee Wise is perhaps too blandly utopian for modern tastes, tales such as Making a Change, in which an overwrought young wife and frustrated mother-in-law collude in a rearrangement of their daily lives, remain sharply perceptive.
White House correspondent Helen Thomas remained a perceptive and outspoken commentator nearly to the weeks before her death on July 20.
Still, even at their most perceptive, they remain largely unpublishable.
Dixon reports all this with a moral zeal that is as gratuitous as it is perceptive: "To remain silent, in fact, was to say something powerful: that it never happened: that these people did not matter".
His verdicts, moreover, remain freshly minted and remarkably perceptive, however much he crams them into the Procrustean bed of his analytical framework.
He combines technical ingenuity with perceptive comments on class and marriage, that remain shockingly undated, even in our supposedly egalitarian society.
The humorously perceptive touches dealing with neuroses and the dating and mating rituals of young New Yorkers remain effective, but the serious content seems not to have been refined to yield exceptional theater.
Indeed, his perceptive, skillful policy on the national question enabled Soviet Russia to avoid total disintegration and to remain a huge multinational state.
As TV writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach wrote in this perceptive recent essay, the premises and plots of most TV dramas are really devices for externalizing conflicts and problems that otherwise would remain largely internal.
Ms. Gibney, a quietly perceptive and evocative modern-dance choreographer, created her new "Time Remaining" by an image of ancient temple ruins overtaken by entangled vines.
