Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artistic expression--sketches and scribbles on cave walls. Oppenheim's paper quotes a graffiti artist who claims that "the art on the streets are the real life galleries." The most basic expression of anger and pride may well come from the streets, but can the rest of us understand them? The paper also quotes ethnologist Robert Colombo as saying, "After reading kilometers of walls one realizes that, whatever its meaning, here is what it means to be human." Can we look past the broken laws and unsightly walls to see what's trying to be said? The greatest challenge...
...didn't understand why my roommates got dressed up on the first day of school when I was a first-year, having come from a laid-back, casual high school in Northern California. I had thrown on the first t-shirt and pair of jeans that were in my dresser--as I had done for my 12 other first days of school. Practically everyone else in my high school had done the same...
...Today's 18-year-olds have had a narrow experience with popular culture," Beloit English professor Tom McBride told USA Today. "They can't be counted on to understand certain references that are second nature...
...didn't understand at that point," George Y. Oliver '99-'02 says. "There were two acronyms, AIDS and ARC (AIDS-related complex)... I didn't really pay attention, though...
...only one day after approving the legislation that had been sponsored by the military. Three people were killed and scores injured in two days of protest against the bill that began Thursday, and a military spokesman said Friday the law had been withdrawn because "half the people do not understand its contents." The climb-down is a second humiliation for the Indonesian military only five days after it was forced to accept foreign peacekeepers' taking control of its old stamping grounds in East Timor...