Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instant celebrity. But its real import was to be felt decades later, after the end of World War II. Instead of repeating the mistake made almost three decades before, the U.S. and Britain bore in mind Keynes' earlier admonition. The surest pathway to a lasting peace, they then understood, was to help the vanquished rebuild. Public investing on a grand scale would create trading partners that could turn around and buy the victors' exports, and also build solid middle-class democracies in Germany, Italy and Japan...
...death of his father forced him to leave at the end of his second year, but, as it turned out, at no great intellectual cost. There were, at the time, no more than a handful of men on the planet who could have understood Farnsworth's ideas for building an electronic-television system, and it's unlikely that any of them were at Brigham Young. One such man was Vladimir Zworykin, who had emigrated to the U.S. from Russia with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He went to work for Westinghouse with a dream of building an all-electronic television...
...lust till I'm as fat as she is." Such language, with its musicality and carefree rhymes reads like E.E. Cummings or Langston Hughes relineated to resemble prose. In this story, Winterson beautifully suggests that the "speech" of lovemaking enacts a "literature" that is at once confounding and universally understood...
...action centers on Rachel Lang (Emily Bergl), a shy Goth chick attending the very same high school that Carrie (whose relationship to Rachel is revealed mid-film) burned down so many years ago. As it turns out, Rachel harbors the very same telekinetic power Carrie did--a frightening fact understood only by the school guidance counselor, Sue Snell (Amy Irving), who also happens to be the sole survivor of the original film...
...married and had children (or would later marry and have children), yet they regarded their marital life as completely removed from any romantic ideals and geared exclusively towards reproduction. In the entire Symposium, the only mention of heterosexual intercourse is in the context of adultery. The adulterous man was understood to be acting out of love...