Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonders, then, whether in some other life, in some other house by the sea, mom gave Marlon Brando the same advice. Little else could explain his guileful performance in LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Sack Charles), though mother would never use her muffin butter quite the way Brando does here...
...sexual intercourse. This is far and away the leading method of transmission, and to explain why requires being explicit; too often the mechanisms have been obscured by ambiguous phrases like "exchange of bodily fluids" that may frighten more people than they inform...
...seeking to explain the outbreak, some analysts pointed to the area's economic distress. Unemployment in Handsworth, for instance, stands at 36%, nearly three times the national average. Yet even the Labor Party opposition was reluctant to ascribe the rampage purely to economic conditions, and Thatcher, for her part, rejected the notion outright. She denounced those who blamed the riot on unemployment as "Moaning Minnies...
Scorsese has told his tale at a pace just a little fizzier than the merely lifelike, encouraged his cameraman Michael Ballhaus to light it one notch brighter than reality, one notch darker than fantasy. His splendid actors never pause to explain their strange behavior. The result is a delirious and challeng- ing comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown...
...that of course does little to explain what they are all doing together, wandering in and out of a Manhattan hotel room on a steamy summer night back in 1953--the setting of Nicolas Roeg's latest movie, the self-consciously significant Insignificance...