Again and again, he takes the perspective of one looking back on failed utopias, on the obsolete commodities that were once must-haves.
The camera takes the perspective of the baby looking up, dipping under the water, like a person on the ground looking up through the clouds at a machine in the sky.
He read a poem, "Mossbawn, Sunlight," which takes the perspective of a young Heaney, watching his aunt baking in their kitchen: the scone rising to the tick of two clocks.
(This is the strategy of his first book, "The Innocents Abroad," which takes the perspective of bumbling middle Americans trying to appear sophisticated as they travel through pretentious Old Europe).
In a second paper, Professor Morse takes the perspective of a new company with global ambitions and interviews founders, lawyers and investors in Silicon Valley about how they make the decision about where to incorporate.
This, in effect, is Straub's version of George Cukor's "The Women," in which, among themselves, they talk only of men, of their vanity and their grandeur — and it takes the perspective of an old immortal, a woman above the fray, to see that everything men do, they do for their Penelope.
"Maybe they can't take the commands, or maybe they can't take the perspective of the humans".
"In all, taking the perspective of the average consumer, the interim report would appear to be somewhat disappointing.
Toddlers were seen as egocentric and illogical, incapable of abstract thought or of taking the perspective of others.
Hazel chooses to take the perspective of Seymour, who, technically, appears only as a footnote in that book.
"You say we're losing kids; I took the perspective they were lost 12, 14, 20 years ago," Cogen said.
