Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congenial place for real, as opposed to virtual, mingling. It is such a nonintimidating atmosphere, says Joyce Frost, a banker and first-time visitor to @ Cafe, who views cafes like this as a good place to strike up conversations. "I can talk to a guy and ask him to explain this or that to me. It has more of a focal point than most bars...
...full moon was out, a couple of nights before Halloween 1993, when Marshall Chapman and her band, the Love Slaves, played at the Tennessee State Prison for Women. That might explain the kindred electricity between the veteran bar balladeer and her captive audience--women doing time for the kinds of misbehavior people write country tunes about. The resultant live album, It's About Time...(Margaritaville Records), is sad, strong stuff, and may be the most potent peek into the connection between lock-up desperation and good country blues since Johnny Cash played Folsom Prison...
...vulnerability. We couldn't explain to people in Washington what exactly our procedures and policies were," says Green. "So I felt we should have a University-wide discussion even though the parts of Harvard are so different...
...movie takes place in a city that we never hear mentioned by name. It is almost certainly New York, but the film does not allow us to be sure and therefore does not allow us to localize and explain the extremity of human depravity to which we bear witness...
Upon releasing the text of Packwood's diaries last week, Ethics Committee chairman Mitch McConnell and vice chairman Richard Bryan fired off a letter to Gramm asking him to explain the passage. Gramm replied that, yes, the National Republican Senate Committee did give the Oregon Republican Party $96,500 shortly after the Gramm-Packwood meeting took place. But Gramm insisted that the money was not used to support Packwood, to whom the N.R.S.C. could give only $17,500, but for legal party-building activities such as voter registration and getting out the vote. Moreover, he said...