Word: gist
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...historian, so it was amazing to see what the characters had to say,” Jefita said. He also said that during the parts where the action was far more verbal than physical, he focused on the interpreters so that he could get the academic and historical gist of the play’s content. But during parts where the acting was very flamboyant, Jefita focused his attention on the actors and managed to glean what was happening through their movements and body language. “Slavs!” may be in essence a play completely made...
...much a man's reputation is worth," Sack believes, "round numbers will come to the juror's mind." What made a $50 million libel suit against the Boston Globe remarkable last week was a verdict that found five paragraphs of a story false and defamatory, but the "gist" of it true, and awarded no damages...
Gorbachev did not always even hear out the Americans. More than once he listened to just enough of the Russian translation to get the gist, then cut off the translator and launched into a rebuttal. Commented Shultz: "He is accustomed to interrupting and expressing a view. So, when in Moscow, do as those in Moscow do. We interrupted too." It seemed to be "a shouting match," suggested one reporter. Not quite, said Shultz, just a "frank argument." But he left Moscow with no agreement even over whether the President and Gorbachev should issue a joint communiqu?...
SAND AND SMOKE You can surf, but please don't smoke. That's the gist of a new bill to ban cigarettes at Hawaii's beaches and parks. If it passes, the state would be the first to take smoking bans outdoors
What these new documents, authentic or not, bring to light is really inconsequential. The gist of Bush’s record is quite clear. Rather than devote any more time to this overwrought scrutiny of war records—of both Bush and Kerry—it’s time for the media and the public to focus on a record that is really important; that is, their respective records as public servants. But instead of focusing on substantive debate on the candidates’ political records, it seems that the media cannot ignore the lure of sensation...