Word: understand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that does not mean the building is easy to understand or like. Running its whole, three-city-blocks length is a permanent, jungle gym-like white steel scaffolding. The faux scaffold is inspired: it defines a long outdoor walkway, it plays tricks with perspective (Does the thing tilt up? Down? Are its beams parallel?), and its evocation of construction in progress makes the Wexner Center seem perpetually unfinished, excitingly open-ended...
Perhaps I should have known better. I should have been able to read the ethnocentric slant of the course in its syllabus: "...Still others whose work will be read or viewed have tried to understand not only how various 'different' people live, but to what ultimate...moral and religious or philosophical purpose, if any, they adhere...
...statement on the fake notices, Kerry, who supports U.S. military aid to El Salvador, called COCA's distribution of the notices "an ill-conceived and very unfortunate hoax by people who do not understand my position on this issue...
...understand and sympathize with people in my district who make 15 and 20 and $30,000 a year who would have trouble understanding why this kind of pay level is needed," said House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt...
...James A. Traficant (D-Ohio) took a different view. "I understand the game--we come with ethics reform and we sneak in a pay raise," he said...