Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conducted interviews with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, author of the peace plan and winner last month of the Nobel Peace Prize, and with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Said Moody: "Getting in to see the top people makes a major difference in a reporter's ability to understand a complicated story and to convey that understanding to readers...
...Alex were lovers; Beth has to elicit the fact by asking him directly. The women have the cojones in this picture. It is Beth who will earn the movie's first cheer when she tells Alex, "If you ever come near my family again, I'll kill you, you understand?" And Alex who will take Beth up on her dare, swiping Ellen from school for an almost innocuous afternoon kidnaping. The outraged husband tries taking matters into his own hands by strangling Alex back in her kitchen -- be a movie man, Dan -- but he can't finish the job. This...
...eerily authentic portrayal of the lovelorn Alex Forrest and her descent into psychosis -- a progression about which Close knew much more than was in the script. Enlisting the help of three psychoanalysts, including her own, she constructed a detailed and clinically consistent history for Alex that helped her understand and project the character's pain and rage. She decided that someone like Alex probably was sexually abused by her father, despised by her mother and rejected by most of the men she had cared for. Her most recent affair was with a married man and ended traumatically, perhaps when...
...does Rafi understand why they choose to live in a neighborhood torn by violence that itself makes no sense to him. The irony is that the violence stems from the "domestic colonialism" that Britain imposes on her Blacks, and that Rafi, despite his Indianness, is so fully assimilated into the old British mindset that he cannot see this...
...veteran skaters in the man-up situation, Sweeney and Pawloski understand their responsibility to regulate the pace of play. "We have to adapt and set the pace, or slow it up and regroup," said Sweeney, who scored on one of the Crimson's five power plays against the U.S. Olympic Team Sunday...