Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frequently. Disappointed by Michael Dukakis' refusal "to stand on his hind legs and fight," Mamet drafts a strong and dignified speech that he and the reader would have liked to hear the Democratic candidate deliver. As a playwright, he argues that actors and directors should not freely interpret his scripts; as a film director (House of Games) he discovers that contrary to the cliche that making movies is a collaborative business, the enterprise is and must be strictly hierarchical. Having succeeded in the theatrical rat race against committees and long odds, it is not surprising that Mamet favors the individual...
Influenced by liberalization in both theology and society, such clergymen reject or redefine the official concept of celibacy. Many of them interpret it as a ban upon marriage instead of sex, or as an ideal instead of a law to be obeyed. One of Wolf's homosexual priests said of the celibacy rule, "Since it is forced, it has no moral binding power as long as scandal is avoided...
However, City Traffic Commissioner George Teso and the Athenaeum Group, both named as defendants in a CCLN suit, interpret the law differently and say they are within the freeze limit...
...want the television viewing audience to interpret this as some sort of indictment of this body," Danehy said. "I'm sure all of us here have conducted him or herself in a legal manner...
...Gender is intimately associated with value and is a central problem in the study of religion," said Buchanan. "It affects the way people interpret and react to religion...