Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various other things happen: a junior branch officer steals some money; a go-go conglomerate rises and fails; people fall in and out of love; and there is a run of depositers on the bank. All these things are tied together in ways that are too complicated to explain, but it will suffice to say that the novel begins diffusely and then comes together in a manner that is contrived but nagging, insistent...
There was little else available to explain the triumph of colorless Scoop. Meanwhile, his talk of a restoration of The Grand New Deal coalition supporting his candidacy seemed inane, in that Roxbury blacks gave Carter a plurality, professional liberals flocked to Udall and even most Jews made Jackson only their second choice...
Political assassination has been a subject of fascination for writers and film-makers since the late '60s. In the final analysis, Scorsese fails to explain the phenomenon, but at least he fails brilliantly and courageously. Robert Altman, capped Nashville with an assassination that remained unexplained and curiously unmoving; one was left with the vague suspicion that Altman was cynically creating a sterile, objectified, metaphor for the American Situation, an image audiences could construe any damned way they pleased...
...example, the island will receive about $2 billion in federal aid, and much of it, like the food stamp program, fills demands that seem essential. People perceive the difficulties of weaning Puerto Rico away from its dependence on the American market and American credit. Though the independence parties can explain the pernicious effects of colonialism, they cannot offer a secure alternative program for development...
...evacuation of the hospitals is more difficult to explain. Phnom Penh's hospitals had become grossly over-crowded pest-houses by mid-April; after the evacuation, the Communists did clean them and resume their operation with Cambodian doctors. The Khmer Rouge had developed a system of rudimentary clinics and hospitals in the countryside; evacuees may have gone to these. Whether or not the Khmer Rouge had won in April or not, the sick would have had a hard time, due to the general shortage of medicine and supplies for both sides in the civil...