Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of virtuosos attending Harvard makes the traditional omission of music performance even more difficult to explain. Students argue that the department should offer more for undergrads who want to become professional musicians...
...global economy. "It was a perfect chance to hit a home run for free trade and the interconnected world economy," says Governor David Beasley, an energetic Dole supporter. So what did Dole do? Nothing. He stood by quietly, speaking only to introduce some surrogates, who did their best to explain what Dole should have explained. His staff members blamed Dole's reticence on poor advance work. "But he'd been to the same plant before," complains Beasley. "He knows what it represents. Allies like me can get people's attention, but the candidate has to make the sale himself. Dole...
...exclusive conversation with Reginald K. Brack Jr., chairman of Time Inc., Joelle Attinger, TIME's chief of correspondents, and Cathy Booth, the Miami bureau chief, Castro tried to explain and justify shooting down the two defenseless planes...
...could have quickly subverted the mood by flipping over to the local Fox station, where Montel Williams, even more ostensibly concerned than the White House aggregation, presided as a psychiatrist asked a sexually adventuresome teenage bride, "What is it about pain that makes you feel good?" "I can't explain," she replied, adding rhetorically, "Why do you like chocolate pudding...
That would explain why the team from Investigative Group Inc., a high-powered Washington detective agency, was so assiduous in its investigation that it also paid visits to Wigand's first wife and tried to track down his 22-year-old daughter from that marriage. B&W lawyers even subpoenaed Wigand's personnel record from the Louisville, Kentucky, school system, where Wigand now teaches science and Japanese. The investigators may have thought they would turn Wigand's fellow educators against him. They were wrong. "Not all of us agree with what [Wigand] is doing," says Barbara Fendley, who supervises Wigand...