Word: fathoming
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...often most difficult to fathom the characters of those who are superficially very similar to one and yet actually possess that single unknown quality that defies explanation. That is how many of Thrace's neighbors must have felt. The Greeks, for example, were both baffled and obsessed by the Thracians, and so labelled them "barbarians." The Trojan War was waged largely to gain control of Thrace's Hellespont (the Dardanelles). So there were definite strategic motives for heeding that nation. And yet it put forward, in some regions, what to the Greeks seemed bizarre notions, particularly about death...
Judge Thomas J. MacBride apparently could not fathom any overwhelming reason, and, citing potential "irreparable injury" to Clancy, ordered Davis to admit her, at least temporarily. A U.S. Ninth Circuit panel refused to overrule MacBride, and university officials agreed last week to allow Clancy to pursue her studies, pending the outcome of the Bakke challenge. In all likelihood, Bakke's fate notwithstanding, Mrs. Clancy will thus become Dr. Clancy...
...London orchestra in The Man Who Knew Too Much; or the ultimate vision of the master, the boydless hand ripping away the shower curtain in the nightmare-provoker of all time, Psycho. This truism does not apply to The Lady Vanishes for some reason I can't quite fathom. Perhaps the simple georgraphic limitations of the plot account for this anomaly; Hitchcock always works best with a script that offers a wide variety of settings and locations that allow his prodigious imagination its rein. And there is, after all, only so so you can do with the interior...
...Mahmoud of Al Azhar University in Cairo, has said: "The Koran is revelation, and the life of the Prophet is a divine commentary on that revelation. The idea of them being portrayed by others is particularly offensive." American viewers may find the theological objections of the faithful difficult to fathom. But they will have to accord them high marks as movie critics...
...highlight the pathologically paranoid mood of the last years of the Nixon administration and the Watergate cover-up. Intellectually, it goes deeper than this; Hackman painstakingly and convincingly becomes a man who just can't handle the perversity and technocartic inhumanity of his occupation, and who begins to fathom the horror of people like him turning around and persecuting people like him. Dramatically, its suspense becomes brilliantly tense at times (in the sanitary paper wrapped around the motel toilet scene, for example). A very fine film, and better the second, more disturbing, time around...