Word: interpretations
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...have an ideological playground where we can organize, write, debate, protest—even physically invade other peoples’ office space—with minuscule effect and correspondingly miniscule consequences. The result is a culture that encourages us to form and express cogent arguments and opinions, to interpret the world in a productive and reflective manner—and to do so in an environment where fear of failure discourages no one from participating...
Straight people have embraced some pretty gay songs over the years (the Village People's Y.M.C.A., Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax, the Queen catalog). You can interpret this as the gradual acceptance of gay culture or as the mainstream's enduring obliviousness to it. (The Village People did not drop by the YMCA to pump iron.) Now here's a song about coming out to Mom by a group named after a lesbian sex act. You'd think only Liza Minnelli could mistake them for straight. But Take Your Mama also happens to be the most complete pop tune...
...required to obey the law,” Verba explains. “We attempt to interpret the law as best...
...real story of Nina’s murder materializes, Tanya finds herself intertwined in an immigrant underworld, where displaced people lead double lives. In a changing post-Cold War world, conspiracy theories have taken control of many immigrants’ interpretation of reality. Likewise, Tanya struggles to interpret her own family history...
Behind him, John P. Ladds, a white-haired Cambridge resident, struggles to interpret our questions over the din of the band. “I can’t really remember when I joined the Fogg,” he admits, shaking his head in consternation, but says he has been coming to these events for years. “I always enjoy seeing the students,” he says...