"E.T". is about the end of childhood and about its persistence, about learning to reckon with loss and to reciprocate love, about defying the adult world and coming to understand it, about returning home and escaping from home, about pedaling your bicycle furiously through the suburban streets and suddenly taking flight.
Now that we have more and deeper access to the people who make the work, we have to learn how to reckon with more than just the product.
Rebecca Lee reckons I need to learn to type quicker to keep up.
When we fail to shore up their fragile hopes, they, too, will learn to hate us, and the cost will be beyond all reckoning.
Mr Oot reckons this will save Verizon $11m in costs over three years.But even as huge companies such as Verizon learn to cope, the civil-justice system as a whole threatens to get bogged down.
But in seeking out friends who were taller – older – she reckons she learned to focus on what she wanted in life from a young age.
Canada's most famous female skier, 1968 Olympic gold medallist Nancy Greene, grew up here and reckons that after having learned to ski at Red "everything else seemed easy and not very steep".
"He could be a chancellor to reckon with," said one longtime superintendent, "if he learns to listen".
I reckoned that the unique thrills of learning to drive an open-wheel Formula Dodge outweighed the risks.
He fairly bursts off the screen, playing a character that is an embodiment of undirected life force, one who gradually learns to focus his energy to make him someone truly to be reckoned with.
