Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pass-binder's newest, yet unreleased film Despair, an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Though he has worked on more than 30 pictures, he says flatly that working with Fassbinder was "the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in the movies." Director and star understood one another instinctively. "Rainer and Tom Stoppard, the scriptwriter, came down to my house in the south of France to talk about the film," says Bogarde. "After four minutes we knew that we would get along, and I said that I didn't see any need to talk about...
...extremely valuable material. But they, as well as industry scientists, are looking for safe ways to handle, shield and dispose of the composites. Says a Government spokesman: "Properly handled, these materials can be very useful. We want to make sure, however, that their use is fully understood...
...number of speakers at the open meeting on Monday, March 6, revealed what appear to be serious concerns. This input was considered crucial for the Committee to begin its evaluative work. In particular, it should be understood that some of the racial incidents reported at the meeting are unverified and should, in any case, not be taken to characterize accurately any House in the College. The Committee is well aware that such incidents may be viewed differently by the participants and that race issues seem especially to provoke suspicion and rumor...
...stage where politics won't be necessary at all. How will this come about? Through the sheer force of the human spirit itself. No revolution will be necessary, according to Ionesco, because the metaphysical truths expressed by the new philosophers will rise above ideological dogma and be naturally understood by the masses. These ideas will supercede even such bourgeois inventions as language and literature themselves, which Ionesco in his plays shows to be filled with media-jargon and platitudes that hinder communication...
...certain to bump into some of its most deeply held journalistic principles on the way to the bank." But then the Post accused the Times of "managing the news" by -trying to maintain a predetermined publication date-although protecting a publication or release date is hardly what is generally understood by management or suppression of news. Even more absurdly, the Post compared its scoop to the Times disclosure of the Pentagon papers, appealing to the Constitution in the process...