Word: comprehended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morgan's eccentricities would be excusable, or at least understandable, if reason ever skipped alongside insanity. If he deplored his marriage, his wife might comprehend why he disappears from home for days on end. If he hated his job, it might be clear why he often masquerades as someone else--a doctor, a short-order cook, a puppet collector. But Morgan has no reasons. Even when he leaves his wife for his lover Emily, he doesn't do so because he loves Emily more or because he is tired of Bonnie. The spirit moves him, and he leaves...
...Africa and the Caribbean: "Racial redemption is as irrelevant for the Negro as for everybody else. It obscures the problems of a small independent country with a lopsided economy, the problems of a fully 'consumer' society that is yet technologically untrained and without the intellectual means to comprehend the deficiency...
...understand protesting the draft," says SSS spokesman Joan Lamb as she revolves in her chair, "but not registration." Lamb, who has been touring the area talking to college students, says she can't comprehend how young people make the connection between registration and the actual process of induction. Lamb smiles. She studied Russian history in college and understands the nuances of Soviet expansion. She also has a son who is draft...
...that Huston and O'Connor create is so peculiar and self-contained that many may find Wise Blood impenetrable. The film features characters who are all crazy, themes that are religious and humor that ranges from dark to gruesome. Though the movie is by no means difficult to comprehend on its own terms, Huston does not attempt to win over disbelievers. It is not surprising that independent producers, rather than a Hollywood studio, took the considerable risk of financing the project...
Electra's brother Orestes (Gwilym) comes home as a stranger. After the famed "recognition" scene, Electra embraces him with incestuous ardor. Modern audiences can easily comprehend Freud's comment that he had merely systematized what the Greek poets had known all along: the slaying of the parent remains a ritual whose power to chill has lost nothing in 2,500 years...