Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explain. I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore, listening to "urban contemporary"--a mix of soul, rhythm and blues, go go and hip hop. When I picked Harvard over Yale, Brown and Princeton, I thought that I had lucked out musically because it also meant I was choosing Boston over New Haven, Providence and Princeton. Boston was an urban center, I figured, and how could there be an urban center without "urban contemporary...
...ninth grade, Osborn convinced her school administrators to explain their new sexual harassment policy to students in a full-day information session...
...lucky to be stouthearted because she is jumping into a race dominated by the suicide faction of the G.O.P.--the one that has driven the House to impeachment, hurt its fund raising, weakened its hold on Congress and scared others out of the race. This ugly environment may help explain why front runner Bush has for weeks been so strangely coy about his plans, in hopes of lowering the near impossible expectations piling up around him. Millionaire publishing tycoon Steve Forbes, in his fourth year of nonstop campaigning, has replaced his passion for the flat tax with sermons on abortion...
...violinists can be counted on to have remarkable hands, a lot of photographers have great eyes. Brassai's were bouncing balls under aerodynamic eyebrows. You can pretty much imagine them in action when he told people how he got seriously involved with the camera, a development he liked to explain by way of a story he heard from Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer. For a long time she couldn't bear the sight of the pianist whom her rich lover had hired as her accompanist. One day she and the luckless musician were riding face-to-face in a carriage...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...