Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel opens starkly--'They shoot the white girl first'--and then coils back and forth through a century of imagined history to explain who 'they' are and why, on a dewy Oklahoma morning in 1976, they felt compelled to storm a decaying mansion and wreak violence on the handful of women living within...
...Gates videotape--and can show it in its entirety at any time. "If they want to make it available for rent at Blockbuster, they can do it," confirms Georgetown University law professor Bill Kovacic. "But I doubt there's much context there that will help." All of which may explain why Boies is still smiling--no matter how many states are on his side...
...even the books parents love are gradually losing their universality. Mary Brigid Barrett, author and N.C.B.L.A. president, says she always has to stop and explain Charlotte's Web to teaching students, since half of them tend not to know it. Curious George too draws curious stares; many are familiar with the little monkey but not his tale. "What is shocking is that nobody in education is willing to say there are writers, poems, essays and books all Americans should read," says education expert Diane Ravich, editor of The American Reader. And less incentive for adventurous teachers to look...
Recently he told the New Yorker that he "regrets" having given $10,000 to the Clinton defense fund. Now, asked about that remark, he goes all stammery, in the early Hanks mode of bluster and fluster, to explain, "Look, if I hadn't given it then, I would have given it now. As a guy who supports the President of the United States, I think he's doing a fabulous job, and I'm glad I gave him the money." Not that he wasn't shocked by the Lewinsky affair. "In the vast, surrealistic expanse of the Story...
...politicians, journalists and lawyers give the impression that they are all just little kids out in the playground of Washington? For me, an American living in France, perhaps the hardest thing to explain to Europeans has been American womanhood. Monica and Linda are, I hope, definitely not typical. Both are to be pitied. The results of the November elections were the first sign of sanity in an insane America. ALISON MARAILLET Chambery, France...