Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fail to understand the logic of the pump dispenser. Do we need a machine to tell us how much is the correct amount of toothpaste to dispense onto your brush? I, for one, never have had much difficulty in this calculation. Nor have I ever had much trouble in taming that pesky tube cap from running out of the bathroom before I could firmly reseal it onto the top of the tube...
...some of the others tainted by dishonor, deceit and hypocrisy were to show a similar ability to understand their moral accountability for their actions, perhaps an air of redemption would ensue. But the new American gospel is damage control, using the arts of public relations to deflect blame. "Mistakes were made," was President Reagan's explanation for the Iran- contra affair. His absolute refusal to admit even the slightest responsibility for the ethical chaos around him is telling...
...sentiment is generously larded throughout the collection, although, in fairness, Yevtushenko's verse is more effective in recital. At his best, he is a performance artist whose readings enchant audiences who may not understand what he is saying. He seduces them not with the message but with the medium, the Russian language, with its soft buzzings and throaty sighs...
...allow the animals created through biotechnology to be patented ((Ethics, May 4)). We have destroyed the environment and are now creating new organisms that can exist in the conditions we have made. How long can this disregard for nature continue before our actions backfire? Have we the wisdom to understand the consequences...
This poignant material is told obliquely and often with a fey nuttiness. The audience begins to understand that it has stepped outside the literal world when the most neurotically self-absorbed of the women confides to one of her companions that the waiter hates her, and a few moments later, he does indeed turn and say, deadpan, "I hate you." At South Coast Repertory's handsome stage, the show had a visual sleekness that it somewhat lacks in the more rudimentary facilities of the New York City producer, Playwrights Horizons. But the elegance of the storytelling survives and reflects more...