Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carries unreasoning insistence on detail and perfection to an impossible excess. Of course, the film is being billed as a kind of epic-satire, and this kind of excess is the staple of satire. But to satirize history is absurd. A historical film can only try to depict and explain; satire is meant to correct, and history cannot be corrected. For this reason Richardson is at his worst when he attempts to satirize the Victorian establishment, and unfortunately, he attempts this rather often...
...Fascists!" "Nazi Lovers!" "Nigger Lovers!" shouted the highly confused strikers, many of them veterans of years of tortured teaching in the city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike. Shanker himself was shouted off the stage at a Manhattan meeting by a highly vocal crowd of black parents, who called him a white racist...
Ford said the question was serious enough that the CEP would discuss it separately at a meeting later this fall and ask Dunlop to appear and explain the reasons for the committee's recommendation...
Although ingenious theories have been advanced to explain this paradoxical effect of methylphenidate, the mechanism of its action is unknown. The drug has few side effects, the two most notable being a slight loss of appetite and a tendency to insomnia if the last dose is taken too late at night...
...hard to explain why. Drawings are intimate and unimposing art objects--more so than any other genre. The viewer must come to them, bring them out of themselves to get them to speak. But too many different things happen to allow one to really relax with any part of them. One leaves the exhibit overextended and vaguely annoyed...