Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judith Rossner, the author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar, clearly understood the appeal of this kind of masochistic allegory, as the best-seller success that greeted her pulp novel demonstrated. That Richard (In Cold Blood) Brooks-should decide to bring this trash-posing-as-fiction to the screen also shows at once a keen eye for the commercial and a readiness to pursue his art within the constraining framework of a depressing narrative. In taking on a character like Theresa Dunn as the focal point of his film, Brooks has confirmed an affinity for the dark underside of the individual...
...group, which will meet again next Monday at 5:30 p.m., hopes to produce a magazine that can be read and understood by the general public. In the magazine, the group plans to explore the natural sciences and their effects upon the social sciences...
...Regent of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. Many have debated with themselves about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...
...rule it is implicitly understood to be the agent of other, almost equally potent divisive forces-class distinctions, for example, or unyielding morality-and the fact that such considerations have the power to keep postmodern lovers apart for no more than about 30 seconds presents the contemporary novelist or film maker with a rather serious problem in plot construction...
...role of U.S. corporations in South Africa can only be understood in the context of apartheid, which is based on a system of enforced migrant labor. By law, Africans--80 per cent of the 24 million people in South Africa--may be "citizens" of less than 13 per cent of the country's land area, regions designated as "Bantustans." These impoverished and scattered pieces of land have no large towns and little industry or resources...