Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have had no chance 10 years ago but who now go home and grow up. Maybe they will become doctors too. But it is also a war zone, and if you are not fighting the enemy or loading the weapons or plotting the next campaign, you can hardly understand what a brave, brutal, mysterious place this really...
...dangerous part now is not the President's distraction by scandal and the prospect of impeachment. The risk lies, rather, in something that the Lewinsky-Rwanda convergence shows: Clinton's willingness to use words as if he did not understand that they have real meanings and consequences, as if his intense, fleeting sincerity--his shoeshine and his smile, or his wagging finger, or sidelong laser glance, or his bitten lip: his sheer performance--were sufficient. We are headed into historical country where they are not. And they never were...
...this is to turn our sympathies to Humbert, played perfectly by Jeremy Irons, whose expressive face beautifully conveys his longings and inner torment. Reserved and elegant, Irons' character is the most thoughtful and multidimensional person in the film, so much so that we are almost compelled to try and understand his actions in spite of ourselves...
...love Harvard, and am grateful to have the opportunity to be educated at the nation's premier institution. But I have also come to understand that in many ways, this University has very little sense of community...
Among the musicians, pensive faces shined generously as a heavy cadence played to the late moon. It is a strong gift to watch brilliant artists take risks with each other, reveal their gentleness, and understand their connection with their vision of art. Their demeanor with each other showed only unselfishness, and each contribution was given with total "Body and Soul...