Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't explain the whole contract to us," said one worker who refused to vote on the basis that he was not well enough informed to make an educated decision...
With "Fruit Cocktail," Tim Miller achieves through performance art what Jane Austen accomplishes in her novels: he tells a lighthearted story with a predictable ending, about ordinary people in ordinary circumstances, yet tells it so ingeniously that one is left dumbfounded, attempting to explain how such common events could form such a profoundly satisfying theatrical experience...
...That may explain why the Kremlin is saying foreign specialists will be consulted. One of them, Russian officials say, will be Houston's renowned Dr. Michael DeBakey, 88, who helped train Akchurin. Two German cardiologists will also assist. Many more specialists will be in Moscow later this month for an international conference on cardiovascular problems...
There developed, then, a kind of schizoid world in which I sought to explain how and why research was in two different areas. Concepts, like time, won over: the indistinction of things legible and visible in both film and early modern writing. The book as a creation of what Walter Ong called the "local motion" of printed characters. Cinema as an operation that analyzes culture differentially because it establishes multiple "tracks" and thus complicates deixis in ways familiar to medieval authors. Cartographic writing and the relation of space on early maps to literary and political artifacts...
...Chana. It's Hebrew," I explain patiently...