Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this point, we should perhaps head off one possible criticism of our argument: that the Olympics are technically an international event. But if the Olympics aren't wholly American, how does one explain the fact that dancing with ribbons and sled-riding are both featured sports? Only in the Land of TV could such things be possible...
...When CBS cameras located their roving floor reporter, he was involved in a shoving match with security guards. "Take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me!" Rather shouted just before disappearing behind a mass of bodies. He popped back up seconds later, trying, between gasps, to explain the incident to Anchorman Walter Cronkite. "I'm sorry to be out of breath," said Rather, "but somebody belted me in the stomach during that...
...became the center of attention, she said,trying to explain the position of the Blacksduring the Civil Rights Movement, though she feltshe was far removed from the fray when she livedin Pennsylvania...
...Carlo De Benedetti, the Italian industrialist, began confidently. "Allow me to introduce myself," he said. "I was born in Turin. I'm 53 years old. I'm not really sure where I live, but it's somewhere between Turin, Milan and airplanes." Then the high-flying entrepreneur proceeded to explain why he wanted to do what many proud Belgians viewed as the unthinkable, to gain control of Societe Generale de Belgique, their country's largest and most pervasive company. His ambition: to assemble the first giant pan-European holding company that would prove big and diversified enough to compete head...
Exploiting an extraordinary wealth of scholarly, journalistic and pop culture documentation--everything from Dr. Spock to Elvis Presley to Mad Magazine--the author develops a complex web of historical context to explain the origins and antecedents of a movement that has all too often been simplistically reduced to single determinants (the war, the Bomb, the generation gap, etc.). Both rigorous and readable, his analysis convincingly explains how the student movement and the counterculture came into being without either trivializing them or drowning itself in its own data...