Word: understood
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Nothing impressed me about Forst at all," DePodesta jokes. "No, in all honesty, this job requires a tremendous amount of passion and dedication. I wanted someone who understood that. This definitely isn't a job for your basic dedicated baseball fan. Since David had been through two seasons of independent ball, he knew what it took to get up and go the ballpark every single day whether you feel up to it or not. You have to want to live it, if you're really going to get the most of the experience...
...define it as optimism, rightly understood - not a mindlessness but an enabling faculty. Nothing possesses more kinetic energy in a globalizing world...
...people I have ever worked with, David Merrick understood "entertainment" and dished it out in quantity and in style. Just imagine Gypsy; Fanny; 42nd Street; Promises, Promises; Play It Again, Sam; The Entertainer; Look Back in Anger; Marat/Sade all pouring out of the same slightly mad, stagestruck but ultimately brilliant brain. Just as he devised that colorful finale for the first act of Dolly, his death is the finale of a showmanship we will never know again...
...another Australian, Mel Gibson, who told Scott he was "too old, mate." Instead Gibson is playing a more age-appropriate he-man in The Patriot. And isn't that Guy Pearce, another Aussie, all straitlaced machismo in Rules of Engagement? Hollywood has discovered what we Australian women have understood for some time: the discreet charm of the Bloke...
...online program, one still may picture the virtual leering in the lecture hall and the virtual invitation to the professor's home to discuss the student's work in virtual privacy. But how will one re-create the moment when the professor's wife, who never understood him, suddenly does, and the affair is over, and the student--sadder but wiser--realizes that she is no longer a girl but a woman and that the world is a big old crazy wonderful place...