Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policemen are unrelentingly brutal and mindless in their hatred. Hoover (Richard Dysart) and his aide (Beau Windham) are ridiculous in their suspicions of Communist influence behind the Panthers; the one black FBI agent is a robotic mouthpiece for integrationism. Like the Black people of Oakland, we can't fathom what fuels their intense hatred, and can only accept the police as an omnipresent menace. The film's interpretation depends on the individual viewer's ability to conceive of law enforcers as a malignant force...
...chimney. Another lurks in the baggage area at the new Denver airport. A fearsome specimen keeps watch over the swimming pool of Court TV's Arthur Miller. A grotesque gaggle stars on its own Disney animated TV series. They're gargoyles--and for reasons no one can quite fathom they've become the hottest commodity to emerge from the Middle Ages since Gregorian chant. Though their scary Gothic ancestors patrolled the cathedrals of Europe, serving double duty as protectors from evil and divertors of rainwater, today's gargoyles are more likely to turn up as tchotchkes--pencil holders, bookends...
...fathom why it would," she said...
...staging as skillful as the Goodman's is that it can reveal all that's wrong with a script. Wilson is a prodigious rewriter: he was revising Seven Guitars as late as three days before it opened. As it moves around the country, he will surely be able to fathom its problems and remedy them. Given all that's right with the play, it deserves no less...
...what people who knew the 50-year-old advertising executive still cannot fathom is why -- why Tom Mosser? Recently promoted to one of the top jobs at Young & Rubicam and described by friends and colleagues as quiet and reliable, he was a family man who on the day of his death had planned to go Christmas- tree shopping with his wife and children. "I haven't gotten used to talking about him in the past tense," says his old friend James Dowling, an executive at Burson-Marsteller, a public-relations firm where Mosser worked for 25 years. "If you were...