Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haunting painting The Introduction to the Game, two older men hold a pawn before the eyes of a blindfolded, timid man. The mouths of the elders begin to explain the beginning and rules of the game. Some sets of Bak's work show pawns escaping from a toy horse, an allusion to a Trojan horse, only to win the game. The notion of a battle won by the supposed weaker player is an idea that radiates from these rare, passionate pieces of Bak's paintings. In Symposium, sagacious men discuss where to replant their tree which floats above, its roots...
Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy '73 was happy to explain where the 25 to 28 percent retailer markup on a textbook goes. Of this markup, about 11 percent goes to the administrative costs of book purchasing, including hiring staff to obtain book lists from professors...
Maybe the first time they got in there was a large rush at the door and whoever was in charge of letting people in was overwhelmed and accidentally stamped their hand (this might sound ludicrous, but it appears to me the only possible way the A.D. could explain it without saying the doorman blatantly did something illegal). Once in, however, someone must have suspected they were too young to be drinking and should have said something, taken their alcohol away or at least asked if they were with someone from the College. No one did, however...
...barely hear myself suck!" but not the pouty "I miss my old womb," and maybe not the exchange between a female voice ("Man, they cut my cord!") and a male ("Awww, consider yourself lucky"). Side benefit of taking your kids to the movie: it was probably time to explain the miracle of circumcision to them anyway...
...Please explain to me (and millions of others) why Tom Wolfe's choice of clothing should be of any interest. Why do the media think we all want to look at this guy and his pompous white suits? I don't care how a writer dresses. DAVID A. LYMAN Lake Forest Park, Wash...