Word: interpretive
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...think we are all bright and responsible enough to be capable of at least as much concern for seeing the hurt we may cause others as for seeing ourselves hurt. Moreover, I view the ease with which creative thinkers can interpret many situations of interpersonal miscommunication or disagreement as racist or sexist as hurting the very equal treatment they claim to advocate...
...sport is reborn with the banishment of the dreaded set patterns. What is left is an effortlessly pleasurable sight for the spectator. Don't know a Lutz from a Salchow? The TV commentators will tell you, or you can ignore the voice-over and just watch graceful young athletes interpret the music in wonderfully tricky ways...
...things -- it's crazy to deny that," says the researcher. "But there's no telling which way sex differences might go if we completely changed the environment." For humans, educational enrichment could perhaps enhance a woman's ability to work in three dimensions and a man's ability to interpret emotions. Says Juraska: "There's nothing about human brains that is so stuck that a different way of doing things couldn't change it enormously...
Critics have charged that Stone has blurred the line between fact and fiction in the film, and has given unnecessary publicity to an unlikely theory. Stone has defended his movie, saying that one of the roles of art is to interpret history...
...political savants who have been denouncing this zippy melodrama hadn't already existed, Oliver Stone might have invented them, because they fulfill his one-size-fits-all conspiracy theory. Hyper down, pundits! Don't deny Stone the right due any artist: to interpret history through his own prism. And give moviegoers the chance to make up their own minds about who shot President Kennedy. The only thing that Stone's dazzling assemblage of political-science fiction attempts to assassinate is complacency...