Word: learns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excavation will yield important information on a particularly puzzling gap in the murky past of one of the crossroad regions of the world, a melting pot of ancient Mediterranean and Eastern cultures. Says Archaeologist Viktor I. Sarianidi, leader of the research team: "These discoveries fill that gap and we learn that there was no break in the development of the culture...
...ballerina does not do 32 fouettes, then I will feel that I have failed too. In fact, if you put on a ballet that calls for 32 fouettes, you should have a ballerina who can do 46." He is aware of the dancers' worries, however: "I must learn a language to speak to them. If they trust my standards, my judgments, me, it will work...
...story of Rocky's marriage to mousy Adrian (Talia Shire) and his rematch with World Heavyweight Champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the film is not overly concerned with matters of romance or pugilism. The pivotal scenes all illustrate, in picture-book fashion, the hero's saintliness. We learn that Rocky loves animals: "I love animals," he announces early on, and then proceeds to devote a sizable amount of screen time to the care and feeding of his pet dog and turtles. His belief in prayer is second only to Billy Graham's, and his devotion to Adrian...
...learn only that every peasant is a saint who suffers in stoic silence. Bertolucci's observations are no less sentimental, but at least he took some artistic risks in the process. While Olmi seems to feel that the sheer homeliness of his technique amounts to blunt honesty, his aesthetic is every bit as disingenuous as that of a professional waif portraitist in Montmartre. All he has done is serve his picturesque peasants on a pretty platter so that rich people, from a safe distance, can get their fill...
...avoid confronting the reality of all the horrors around them. The second is "middle knowledge," a form of knowing and not knowing at the very same time. One doctor who had shipped large allocations of cyanide to the SS storm troopers who ran the camps seemed genuinely shocked to learn that it had been used to exterminate Jews and other people. Comments Lifton dryly: "He had worked very hard not to know...