Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little-known feature of their relationship has been the quiet mediation of a third man, the past master of summitry, Richard Nixon. The former President has taken it on himself to explain Reagan and Gorbachev to each other, coaxing them toward accommodation where possible. Nixon has found an attentive hearing in the White House and the Kremlin alike...
Soon after arriving in Evanston, Gephardt leaped from drama to campus politics. Known then as Rich, he wore trousers with razor-sharp creases, was a preciously good speaker and even knew how to pull cub reporters aside at student senate meetings to explain the complicated goings-on. Friends kidded the student-body president about combing his hair down over his forehead in the style of John Kennedy. A college sweetheart recalls that the constant comparisons had an effect on Gephardt. "It was hard to look that much like J.F.K. and not talk of the presidency," she says...
...effects of that horrific bulletin can plunge thousands of American lives into a maelstrom. Desperate ticket-counter pleas. Improvised sleeping arrangements. Long-distance calls to explain that you are in Wichita with no plausible hope of joining the family around the festive stuffed turkey...
...title of Hugh Whitemore's elegant and poignant biographical play contains at least four layers of meaning. Taken together, they explain what intrigued Whitemore in the life of Alan Turing, an obscure if influential British mathematician. The most obvious reference is to Turing's cracking the Nazi Enigma code, credited by Winston Churchill as a key intelligence feat of World War II. Confronted with an enemy that could change its code in a trice, almost infinitely and randomly, via a complex encrypting machine, Turing outwitted the device by building a sort of early computer. A second allusion...
...Never apologize, never explain." That ancient macho motto may be the only bit of traditional wisdom Scottish Filmmaker Bill Forsyth believes in. The glory of his wee pictures (Gregory's Girl, Local Hero) is the way people appear out of nowhere, disappear without warning, and never discuss their motives for doing either. In his world no one has heard of Freud, let alone a well-made screenplay. They are, however, well prepared for life's little surprises...