Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drinks. He continues to suggest that Bailey was the defense-team sieve, responsible for leaking stories to the New York Daily News and Simpson's original police interview to the tabloid Star, an interview in which, according to the Darden book, a disoriented Simpson was unable to explain his cut hand and unwilling to take a lie detector test. "I'm sure eventually I'll do it," Simpson tells detectives Philip Vannatter and Tom Lange. "But it's like, hey, I've got some weird thoughts now. And I've had some weird thoughts--you know, you've been with...
...many, that time has arrived . 'Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe.' Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to ... the atheism of distraction, people who are just 'too damn busy' to worry about God at all." --April...
...coming home after my wife has left, and we see me pull into the driveway, and we're wondering what I'm going to do ... maybe you should ask [director] Harold Ramis." Just as well his next movie, Desperate Measures, is an action thriller. No one has to explain that genre...
...after giving one of his standard America-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket speeches, when bingo, the Book of Virtues author hit the jackpot. A sheepish Bennett wouldn't say how much he won ($60,000, says a friend) or how long he played, but did want to explain: "I'm against state expansion of gambling, state advertising encouraging people to gamble, and gambling as a way to make a living. But adults on their own time...," etc., etc. Proceeds went to charity...
...CHILDHOOD IN KANSAS IS THE WAY TO EXPLAIN Bob Dole's minimalist approach to public speaking, as we've been hearing lately, how do you account for my sister Sukey? She has spent more years living in Kansas than Dole ever did, and when she's of a mind to, she can talk the eyeballs right out of your head...