Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diameter of the Milky Way, curve around clusters of galaxies that lie some 3 billion light- years* from earth. Astronomers Vahe Petrosian of Stanford University and Roger Lynds of Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, who discovered the arcs, believe each consists of some 100 billion stars but cannot explain the shape. "What gives us a headache," says Petrosian, "is that they are so, so perfect...
Frequently using analogies to explain his thinking, the 50-year-old artist told the crowd that when he envisions the audience reading his plays, he imagines they are holding the other half of a $10 bill that he holds in his hand. The value of the artwork is in the joining of the two halves...
STELLA HAS TWO things on his agenda. The first is to provide his own manifesto: the ringing intellectual statement that will enable the heiress who can afford a Stella to explain to her Mount Holyoke-educated friends what those lines and curves are all about. At one time, a decent knowledge of classical mythology and the Bible was enough to understand what a painter was up to. Today, even an encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary art can fail to inform the art-hungry heiress what her new Abstract Expressionist masterpiece is supposed to express...
Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith could have used a bevy of excuses to explain the two upsets. After all, the team was in the midst of a 10-day road trip, had flown in from Hawaii the day before the Penn game, and was playing its fourth and fifth away contests of the week--to make 11 straight road games with three more to go before the women cagers return to their homecourt on February...
...before the strike." But she is critical of many pilots. "We have their lives in our hands, but they relate to us like we were the enemy," she says. "It can be stressful when you're taking insults on a frequency and you have to be professional and cannot explain your reasons for doing something...