Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overdrafts Even friendly Senators on the committee pointed out that Lance's biggest problem was to explain why he, his wife LaBelle and relatives, as well as his 1974 campaign committee, had been allowed to write large checks that seriously overdrew their accounts. As Democrat Henry Jackson told Lance: "The man on the street comes up to me and says, I cannot have an overdraft, and he sees one after another ... I think this is the heart of your problem...
...satisfied with Lance's explanation that he had repaid the bank. Roth compared this reasoning to the rationale "of a person who goes through a red light and says nobody was hurt so my going through was all right." Lance could not satisfactorily explain to Ribicoff why he had written a letter to federal bank examiners in 1973 saying his overdraft problem would be corrected and why he had failed to heed the criticism of bank examiners who found that the overdraft situation was "abusive" and "the age and size of the overdrafts is appalling." Instead, the collective overdrafts...
...artist is playing a huge joke, saying: Here is a man, ('L'Artiste Phenix) with the profile of the Emperor Constantine attached to a horse's head--now what do you make of that? Yet, beneath the surface of his painted world, seemingly defying nature as the sciences explain it, there is a vitality that belies the cavalier neglect of "realistic" technique. The "Bacchante" dancing beneath a red rainbow may be a figment of Chagall's imagination but she has amazing verve...
Just trying to explain the plot of Gondoliers, the Gilbert and Sullivan fall production scheduled to open at the Agassiz Decemeber 1, is a mistake. It begins simply enought with two Venetian gondolier brothers falling in love with and marrying two peasant girls in the first act. But then the trouble starts. One of these brothers turns out to be the lost king of Barataria but, good Venetian egalitarians that they are, neither of the supposed brothers wants to be the ruler or knows which actually is. All of which gives them good reason to rule Barataria together and gives...
Page's direction undermines more than the story. As the heroine Debby, Kathleen Quinlan conveys the fear, isolation, anger and occasional joy of the schizophrenic convincingly, but Page's failure to do more than superficially explain why she feels these emotions makes it difficult to empathize with what could have been a superlative job of acting. Page's attempt to depict Debby's fantasy world, to which she retreats from an unpleasant reality, further emphasizes his direction's shallowness. Green described a world complete with a separate language and gods who alternately seduce and torment Debby; but such a world...