Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bares the essential primitivism of "Winter Places." Mallardi wants her students to understand what goes into a theatrical setting by realizing that "lights, color, and costume" all play a role. "And if they choose not to use them, then that is a decision too." But can artistic choice really explain all the technical simplicities of the company's production? Mallardi herself says that the uneven cello and piano accompaniment to "Cresence" might have been re-recorded, but the group didn't have the money...
Last week's piece (May 10), "In the Counting House," continues these reflections, this time musing on the business side of baseball. Angell writes for the non-fan, and takes pains to explain the machinations of the reserve clause, this spring's lock-out, next year's new franchises, and the current attitudes of the players and owners. Angell sympathizes with the former while realizing that the vast majority of fans are angrily reacting to "the view of the athlete as an employee and a card-carrying union man," which "violates our fan vision of the athlete as a mythic...
...shot them - like they do today - with snot running out of my nose, sweating and with my pants torn open," said Big John in an interview with Chicago Tribune Film Critic Gene Siskel. Still, isn't all that homicide harmful to younger fans? "I'll explain it abc, kindy-god-dam-garden for you. Children's stories have always included knights and dragons with blood, fire and everything," retorted Wayne. Any more questions, pardner? Mr. Mayor...
However tentative and guarded, Chagnon's work is significant because it aligns him with the sociobiologists-a loose collection of zoologists, geneticists and social scientists who argue that evolutionary animal behavior can explain human behavior today. In extending the earlier findings of the ethologists, whose ideas a generation ago became popular with Konrad Lorenz, the sociobiologists assert that despite man's centuries-long effort to insist that he is distinctively different from his fellow animals, one proper study of mankind is beast...
...could be that people are playing harder," laxwomen captain Carlene Rhodes said last night, trying to explain the large number of injuries. "If you don't put out as much as you can, you don't get injured...