Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense had its own problems, including some never-resolved inconsistencies. Neither Lynch nor Byrne fully explained why after their arrest they initially told the FBI that two men accosted them at a Manhattan hotel and forced them to nab Bronfman. Nor did they ever explain why they next gave written confessions to the FBI saying that they spent months scouting the Bronfman estate to plan the grab-without ever mentioning any involvement on Sam Bronfman's part. It would be up to the jury to decide, if indeed it could, whose story to believe...
...began to feel like Alice in Wonderland," Stewart says. "Holmes had ordered me to put on the gloves and not to speak to Hughes under any circumstance. Now Hughes had asked me a question, and I didn't know how to make signs that would explain why I was putting on the rubber gloves...
...looks only at the nightcap and thinks that it's her grandmother," says Italy's urbane Premier Giulio Andreotti. "But at the same time, I am not so reckless as to throw oil on the fire and ruin everything." Metaphorical mixture aside, such political caution and practicality explain how Christian Democrat Andreotti, 57, has managed for the past four months to keep a weak one-party government in power, primarily propped up by the "benevolent abstention" in Parliament of a strong Communist Party...
...Gambit. $8.95. Anyone who thinks of alligators as truculent beasts can thank Clinton Arrowood for revealing their spiritual side: they are dedicated musicians. There is no indication of this in Donald Elliott's didactic text, a series of short essays in which the instruments of the orchestra archly explain their characteristics. Thus the bassoon: "I am something of a deep thinker." Somehow, this unpromising libretto inspired Arrowood to portray each instrument being performed by one of his bewigged and frock-coated reptiles. The results are as absurd-and as charming-as Babar the elephant enjoying...
Harvard's Lewontin dismisses theories like these as "barroom generalizations." Indeed, sociobiologists seem prone to concoct theories to explain a wide array of human problems. Harvard Biologist Robert L. Trivers presented the convention with his sociobiological view of parent-child relationships. Conflict is built in, he said, because parents divide their genetic investment-and their attention-among their children; while each child has a 100% investment in itself and struggles for 100% of the parents' time...