Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the people Charlie (Jon Blackstone) meets have something to hide. Meat-packing heiress Catherine Simms (Brodie Fisher), overzealous building inspector Owen Musser (Steve Lyne), and even the saintly Reverend David Lee (Jon Finks), Catherine's fiance, reveal their secrets in his presence, thinking he won't understand...
...disturbing are these images for Sherman, images which often depict her own death? "I kind of like them," she says. "The grosser they are, the more I'm entertained by them. Sherman doesn't understand post-modern, feminist and semiotic analyses of her work and avoids over-intellectualizing her work. She says she simply wants to "shake people up, to make them really think about wanting to own a work...
...entered the stadium, with the "Y" flag and the "H" flag flapping over our rooting sections. I couldn't understand how this place could seat more people than Giants' Stadium; the place looked so, well,small...
Goldsmith not only likes making lots of money, he likes spending lots of money. "I don't understand people like Warren Buffett," he says of the parsimonious Nebraskan financier, "who pride themselves on living in their first house and driving a used Chevy to work, despite being billionaires." Aside from Goldsmith's Paris home and his town houses in New York and London -- all filled with antique furniture, paintings, statues, silk hangings -- he has just acquired a 16,000-acre hideaway on northwestern Mexico's Gulf of California. "It's the most beautiful place I've ever seen," he says...
...Smart ones understand," says the venerable Clark Clifford, 80, who has seen as much of the power game as anyone. Harry Truman, for whom Clifford worked in the White House, at first fought the forces around him; he severely embarrassed himself and the country before he understood he wasn't the only authority on the avenue. Clifford thinks that insofar as Reagan is concerned, it is too late. "President Reagan has become almost irrelevant. Powerful forces are moving ahead without him. In the economic field, he will be unable to recover. Our main goal now is to try to prevent...