Word: understood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inevitable, you see, Papa, has finally overtaken the fiesta nacional. You and Sidney Franklin and the other gringos were always so mesmerized by the mystique of blood and sand that you ignored what Spaniards understood: above all else, bullfighting is box office. For a time in Spain's new and vigorous consumer society, the box office was busier than ever. With 20 million foreign tourists a year and television beaming corridas to as many as 15 million more people (instead of the mere 23,663 that can shoehorn into the Plaza Monumental), the bullfights have become a $25 million...
...toured all over Europe with him. He had been the grand dad of the group, and now--at 80--he was hospitalized with stomach cancer. Drag was a delightful little man, a creole who spoke little English that was intelligible, and a lot of creole French that no one understood but him. He had grown up--like many New Orleans jazzmen--in a French speaking family, and seemed to personify the blend of Latin and African cultures which had made New Orleans and its music so unique...
...years ago, of course, the word would have been perfect. Everyone understood exactly what it meant back then, and everyone would have considered it powerful enough--even shockingly so--for the situation above...
...says Tichauer, industrial society has long overlooked it. Basic tools were reproduced in traditional shapes mainly out of habit. Well into the 20th century, more complicated machines were designed without any serious consideration for the limitations of their human operators-in part, at least, because scarcely anyone understood what those limitations were. Biomechanics, Tichauer notes with satisfaction, is beginning to change all that...
Shakespearean comedy, even a play as nice as this pageant of misrepresentation and manipulation, needs to survive on a modern stage. Mr. McBain has apparently understood this requirement, but his intermittant attempts to provide are the sorts of cures that kill. Where the play cries out for a locale--a definite fix in time and space--he has staged it with settings as homey and identifiable as the mountains of the moon, and costumes suggestive of a Bulgarian re-make of Flash Gordon. The addition of a sort of light show-cyclorama, beautiful as it may be in the abstract...