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...Cool," says a teenage visitor to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, inspecting a VW Beetle with a secret compartment for smuggling human cargo. "Reunification was really great," says Alexandra, a 15-year-old from southwestern Germany, as she browses in the museum's gift shop. She finds it hard to explain her enthusiasm. "[The East Germans] speak German too," she says finally...
...tried to explain your alcoholism by saying that if you could drink normally, you wouldn't do it at all. What did you mean by that? The idea of having one or two drinks bores the ass out of me. If I'm going to drink, I'm going to do it to get drunk. If I'm not going to get drunk, I'm just not going to drink. It's hard to explain. That isn't necessarily what alcoholism is, I just tried to explain it as it manifested itself...
...Make Her Say”—featuring Kanye West, Common, and humorously placed samples from Lady GaGa’s “Poker Face”—is another standout collaboration, albeit a bit more off-color: “So, that explain why I love college / Gettin’ brain in the library ‘cause I love knowledge / When you use your medulla oblongata / And give me scoliosis until I comatoses / And do it while I sleep, yeah, a little osmosis.” Later, on “Simple As?...
...opening scenes of the show, Elmo’s mother loses her job and has to explain to Elmo—in a slow, Southern drawl—why she’ll be at home more often. After a series of questions by Elmo—Is it Elmo’s fault? Did Elmo buy too many toys? Will Elmo have to move?—the characters travel around the neighborhood to learn lessons from four real families dealing with similar changes...
...example, the show’s opening scene features just such a positive, practical idea: a community market. As Elmo shops around for odds and ends on the street, Al Roker explains to Elmo that a community market is just “neighbors coming together to buy and sell things” and “make some extra money.” In a later scene—and a symbolic slice of the show’s spirit—one of the neighborhood youths explains to Grover that despite the ambiguity of the phrase, one can?...