Word: explained
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...this time, I'll get straight to the assessments. For me, Mary Poppins worked, at a level higher than efficient and just this side of splendid. The pleasures of Grey Gardens are more mixed. It boasts a glorious performance by Christine Ebersole as both mother and daughter (I'll explain later), and Best Support by Mary Louise Wilson, in a smart show whose main deficiency is exactly what so many modern musicals lack: good music...
...waking both of my parents and telling them. The following year, when we relocated from New York to Los Angeles, the very first stop that we made was the Ambassador. I remember my father [Martin Sheen] walking us through the lobby and the ballroom and listening to him explain that this is where it happened, this is the place where the music died...
...student in archaeology? Well then I guess it makes sense that you’re teaching a class on astronomy, since both subjects deal with rocks on occasion. Next, you have the TF who is actually overqualified for the class. These are the ones that come into section and explain to you that, unfortunately, everything your professor lectured about was wrong. So whom should you believe: the professor or the TF? Who knows—just make sure you guess right when it’s time for your midterm. Finally, there are the TFs who you have no idea...
...were offered—that is, to do what they were told and get filmed doing it. If their claims are true—they have yet to be denied—at no point during the filming process was any effort made to overcome the language barrier and explain what was going...
...this advice. The South Asia bureau chief for the Financial Times from 2001 to 2005, Luce is the author of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, a recently published work that is the latest in a line of tomes seeking to explain how the erstwhile land of snake charmers and flying carpets has become the world's newest economic power. It is also, far and away, the best...