Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice. He was immediately and irretrievably lost because there were nothing but cross-street signs, so he could not find where he was on the map clenched in his fist. Cursing the lack of street signs, he asked a cabbie for directions. The cabbie told him he could not explain how to get to the hotel, but for a fee he would lead him. Disgusted, the explorer drove on and, coming to a fire station, parked his Hertz car in the driveway and refused to move until the firemen agreed to tell him where...
...puts himself in mind of Alexander the Great, though he can also go on about Lord Nelson and Jiminy Cricket. "Who is this Jiminy Cricket?" inquired a Soviet journalist last week, and the man's eyes grew at the rate of Pinocchio's nose when he heard Turner explain, "Jiminy Cricket was a conscience of a little wooden...
...deliberately lost the 1919 World Series for a few thousand dollars a man, is instead an off-Broadway joy. Poignant, intelligent, funny and morally alert, it shows what the theater can do far better than TV or movies in dealing with historical material: bring characters alive by letting them explain their dilemmas directly to the audience...
...pantomime band of musicians in ape costumes, derbies and overcoats who mechanically plunked out a nonsensical tune like figures on a music box. The laboriously articulated joke came when one ape bopped another on the head at crucial points in the tune. The humor was too bizarre to explain, but the bit had the grace and precision of a comic sonata...
...have been killed since the current unrest began in September 1984, the lives of South Africa's 5 million whites have changed relatively little--at least on the surface. Most of them still live in big houses with spacious grounds, universally protected by solid walls, which, they like to explain to visitors, are for enclosing children and dogs. Even whites of fairly modest income have a life-style that would be out of the reach of well-to-do professionals in the U.S. or Western Europe. In today's depressed real estate market, a comfortable house with three or four...