Word: understood
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Some people go to parties and don't like to dance. Which is something I have never really understood. There is little else that makes a party interesting. It's hot, it's sweaty, there's probably some form of bad alcohol and there's music. So why not dance? If you're not going to dance, go home and watch a movie for crying out loud. Oh well, maybe the bad alcohol will take effect before the party, inevitably, ends...
Some people go to parties and don't like to dance. Which is something I have never really understood. There is little else that makes a party interesting. It's hot, it's sweaty, there's probably some form of bad alcohol and there's music. So why not dance? If you're not going to dance, go home and watch a movie for crying out loud. Oh well, maybe the bad alcohol will take effect before the party, inevitably, ends...
...considers Hemingway'sgreatest achievement to be not the short stories,or A Farewell to Arms, but For Whom the BellTolls, the novel that at the Hemingway CentennialConference was looked down upon as a failed ifambitious attempt at broad social criticism, ananomaly in Hemingway. But maybe Cowley,Hemingway's contemporary, understood somethingimportant about Hemingway's social concerns that,by and large, escaped the writer/critics at theCentennial...
...Chideya, that message was clear: "In Adams House, you had a lot of latitude to create your own persona," she says. "He allowed us to get crazy--but in safe ways. He understood that we were experimenting...
...demanded, more of herself--certainly more than Hollywood wanted of her. "The only thing I achieved going to the States was that I became an exotic beauty," she says. "I did my best to give a version of Chinese-ness that the West was looking for. But I also understood that that version of me was worthless. I wanted to do something more serious." Clearly, Chen's striking beauty--searchlight eyes, long, strong neck and, it must be said, the most luscious mouth on either side of the Pacific--is merely the wrapping for surpassing talent and drive. Hollywood...