Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explain the promotional muscle being flexed behind yet another translation of Homer's Odyssey, this one provided by Princeton professor Robert Fagles (Viking; 541 pages; $35)? Why expect people to pay $45 for a boxed set of tapes (issued by Penguin Audiobooks) on which the British actor Ian McKellen reads the text of Fagles' translation over a listening time of some 13 hours...
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...criticized both President Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, the former for his overall economic plan and the latter for failing to explain his plan, and his call for an across-the-board 15 percent tax cut, in more detail...
Despite the noble efforts of Ross and Wilkin to explain Gorey's world, Gorey's words are difficult to appreciate fully out of context. "The World of Edward Gorey" should be a source only for fans of the Gorey repertoire. Ross and Wilkin demystify some of Gorey's world, but, in typical Gorey fashion, they leave enough mystery to keep the reader interested and intrigued...
...known talking heads, doing Generation X political analysis for Generation X viewers. A graduate of Harvard and a former reporter at Newsweek, Chideya hates the Gen X label but is resigned to using it "with a smirk in my voice." For this week's cover package, she tries to explain her generation's seeming lack of interest in current events. "It's not as if there's no base of knowledge," she says of her peers. "There's a different base of knowledge. The challenge is to create--or recreate--a common language for the political and social issues...