Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divorce, Warren skillfully ties his protagonist's sufferings to his pastlessness. For Jed, reality is both elusive and painful, and escape from pain involves flight into a world without time. The costs of such flight are severe, but in A Place to Come To they are too often intellectually understood rather than emotionally endured...
...nervousness of the hunted criminal in Petrified Forest. Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included a last scene in his book during which the reader really grasps what a contemptible specimen Spade is. But Huston thankfully understood that a film version could dispense with this redeeming moralism especially at the expense of Bogart's persona. A remarkably sophisticated insight for a director so seemingly wet behind the ears...
...there with rays of light that highlight the contrast of the silhouetted songwriter against the blackness of his darkened living room. The craftsmanship and care that went into the filming are stamped all over the movie; I had to double check with Rudolph to confirm that I had correctly understood him when he blithely informed me that he had worked with a $900,000 budget and a 30-day filming schedule, never once missing a deadline or exceeding a financial ceiling...
...research librarian heard about Holzer's wizardry through a friend and invested $2,500 in what she understood was a "cement deal." The first $600 in profits was to have been mailed to her more than a year ago; so far she has not seen a cent. Guillermo Seco, a Manhattan physician, made a $35,000 investment through Holzer, who, he claims, sent him glowing earnings reports of the venture. But when it came time to collect his profits, he could not. He sued and won a court judgment of $181,018. Holzer declines to discuss details of precisely...
...world when the proper "balance" is found between the public and private realms. The material for these conditions existed, according to Sennett, in 18th century London where citizens created through women's elaborate wigs, men's formal coffeehouse speech and other observable social signals a system that was commonly understood...