Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students, the military, drug users and African Americans. Some terms are merely colorfully descriptive: a No-Tell Motel (1974) is a cheap trysting place; an Oklahoma credit card (1966) is a siphon tube used for stealing gasoline; a kiskeedee (1857) is a French-speaking person who is unable to understand English and keeps asking, "Qu'est-ce qu'il dit?" (What is he saying...
...lifetime's pent-up feelings into her letters and encounters with Dorothy Freeman, an amateur naturalist and Maine neighbor, who became her "white hyacinth for the soul." The two women recognized that, as Carson wrote, "our brand of 'craziness' would be a little hard for anyone but us to understand." Indeed, as Carson's cancer intensified, Freeman was sufficiently worried about the "implication" of their letters to beg Carson to destroy their correspondence...
...often castigated those who promoted family planning. Overpopulation is literally greed personified, and if it is not confronted, all living things will suffer dire consequences. Every day thousands of children die as a result of unsustainable population growth. This is no time to create saints of people who cannot understand this harsh reality. BILL ISBISTER, Director Too Many People...Too Little Earth! Aloha...
...understand the import of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, one should simply read the first three letters of his last name. And this fall, the Brattle Theatre may be the place for reverence with its Forever Godard retrospective...
...spontaneous creations of the artist unfold before you-live. But these recordings come as close to transcending that limitation as seems possible. The live setting reinforces the very palpable sense that Coltrane is holding back nothing in expressing himself through his horn. Even if one doesn't fully "understand" the music-and perhaps no one can-its emotional power will be immediately apparent.Photo courtesy of MCA RecordsA new set of Coltrane's recordings presents the artist live in every sense...