Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, say the programmers, the selective viewer should be encouraged by the unprecedented number of specials offered this season. After all, they explain, the audience cannot be selective unless it has something better or at least different to select from. On three successive nights recently, each network pre-empted all regularly scheduled series for specials...
...explain further, for the trade that I am involved in, even though it is the second oldest profession known to man, is not one with which the average person is familiar. Palmistry is one of several so-called psychic sciences which deal with man, his personality, and his future. Astrology, for example, is an ancient and widely acknowledged "science" which uses stars and different times of the year to foretell what is in store for the individual. Another common form of fortune-telling is cards, either the common variety or Tarot cards, which originated in Israel. Tea-leaves are read...
...Instead, Americans get upset by De Gaulle's peremptory marching orders to American .fighting men belonging to NATO and his helpful comments on the U.S. dollar. Indulgent Frenchmen who have allowed Americans to dally with their daughters-and occasionally to marry their sisters-are at a loss to explain the Yankee ingratitude. Meanwhile, Americans are trying some coy and contrary ways of counterattacking...
Movies (Wild and Wonderful) are reruns. The networks explain that the holiday audience drops roughly 10%-so why be bighearted at Christmas and run new episodes? More to the point, the pre-Christmas period is a so-called Nielsen "black week," when national ratings are not tabulated...
...Things Work has any notable failing, it is that in many cases its anonymous authors, with Teutonic thoroughness, tell more about devices and I processes than most people want to know. To explain the way a safety match works, for example, they begin with a log not yet stripped of its bark. Then they relentlessly pursue the wood -carefully identified as poplar-through the entire manufacturing process. Reluctantly they abandon the description when the match has finally been ignited, the flame extinguished and the reader's interest has burned...