Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stood peacably," Charney said, "He saidsomewhat defensively or to explain himself thathe'd given Yale a lot of money--and that's almosta direct quote--and that the alumni should have asay also, or something like that...
...purloined heiress was in town to promote Paul Schrader's oneiric docudrama about one of the century's most notorious kidnapings. Like Bird, Patty Hearst fails to explain a controversial public life. Rather, it displays her ordeal in the stark, uninflected images of a catatonic's nightmare. Natasha Richardson is nifty as Hearst, who came to Cannes to praise Schrader for creating something more complex than a "sex-and-guns-and-rock-'n'-roll epic." But the film could have used more of all three. By denying Patty Hearst a point of view, Schrader has taken a mug shot instead...
When I play tennis with someone better than me, I play a better game. Though some may explain this phenomenon in terms of the large bet I'm usually hustled into, others see it as a matter of rising to the situation. Whether the motivation for rising to expectations is a desire to please or merely an aversion to embarrassment, the situation as it exists at Harvard imposes stifling constraints...
...apartments, along with other real estate. She is the self-proclaimed "queen" of his hotel chain, famous for being nasty to the help, and a walking exaggeration of every cliche about the second wife as a social type. The obvious diagnosis of what ails the Helmsleys -- greed -- doesn't explain much, either morally or practically. Few of us lack greed. And, in our economic system, there is nothing wrong with greed. A variety of diagrams and mathematical formulas is available to show how capitalism usually channels individual greed into productive activity that's good for society as a whole...
Mamet added to the production's mystique by declining all requests for interviews and refusing to explain the play's odd title. It appears to derive from a blessing in medieval verse and song, "God speed your plough." According to Silver, it means approximately, "Do your work, and God will help you." Director Gregory Mosher, who has staged twelve of Mamet's plays and is one of his closest friends, suggests instead that the phrase "has to do with turning fresh earth -- and of course there is a sexual...