Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nitze doubts that President Carter fully understands the nuclear game he is playing. Nitze went to the White House once, and Carter gently upbraided him. The President urged Nitze to join his team and help work out a treaty that would both be good for the U.S. and be an agreement that "the Russians would think is fair." That disturbed Nitze. "The Russians do not understand what we mean by fairness," he insists, and so he told the President...
...Bubba's case would be reopened. In the meantime, he is undergoing psychiatric examination at Parchman, where he is being protected by a trusted lifer assigned him by the warden. Says Defense Counsel Julie Ann Epps: "He's a terrified little boy who really doesn't understand what's going on. He doesn't know what 48 years...
...nothing can come of their relationship; a kiss in a hallway is the extent of their physical contact. But the reporter does unravel the writer's plot in time to prevent her carrying it out. More important, we understand that his attentions are enough to restore her sense of her own worth, to bring her out of her temporary insanity. One might perhaps wish that Apted had not used a diffusion filter quite as often as he did (it sometimes seems the English fog has crept into almost every room his characters occupy), and that he had allowed...
...differ only slightly from the Dead End Kids of the '30s, the Jets of West Side Story, or even the Sweathogs of TV's Welcome Back, Kotter. With a little help from a concerned social worker, these misunderstood kids could probably be college timber. What Hill does understand is the steely textures of urban nightmares. From its opening image−a neon pink Coney Is land Ferris wheel against an inky sky−to its final burst of gore, The Warriors offers a hallucinatory vision of New York's deadliest nocturnal horrors. Hill creates creepy poetry...
...trying to teach the people enough so that the next time they go to a game, or watch one on T.V. at home, they'll understand the fundamentals," Brown said Monday...