Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starters, according to one account, she was created from the genitals of the god Uranus, who had been hurled, dismembered, into the sea by his ill-tempered son Cronus. Her husband was Hephaestus, blacksmith to the gods and the ugliest fellow in the pantheon. This may explain why Aphrodite lost no time in fooling around with squads of other gods and not a few surprised mortals, among them an obscure shepherd or two. It is no wonder that Aphrodite should continue to be so seductive even to this day. Underachieving, oversexed men -- and for that matter overachieving, undersexed men -- keep...
...light of The Crimson's damaging article, I feel compelled to explain the circumstances of my exam once again. Your readers may judge for themselves whether I am justified in seeking to have my Math 1b exam results overturned...
Some psychologists worry about the ill effects of such nonconformity. Says family psychologist Alan D. Entin: "Kids get teased a lot when they have to explain the peculiarities of their family. The problem is that a kid knows when he or she is weird." Would the children of a marriage between, say, Jeremiah Shostak-Fielding and Maribel Johnson-Drexler ever learn to spell their full surname, provided that their parents could ever agree on just what it should be? And would that alliance completely unhinge data banks...
...North is also accused of acts difficult to explain away as matters of high policy: defrauding the Internal Revenue Service by helping a tax-exempt foundation raise money for the contras; accepting an illegal gift to a Government employee, a $13,800 security installation for his home; and putting some funds raised for the contras to his own personal...
...suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted man, while the device of narration allows Congdon to avoid prolonged melodramatics. The script benefited from Roberta Levitow's simple, fluid staging and from...