Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proof: year after year of high growth with minimal inflation. Contravening all known wisdom of economic management, they did it with lots of direction from government bureaucrats--who regularly outguessed the markets in developing efficient industries. The dawn of an Asian Century was upon us, and pundits struggled to explain this miracle...
...princess, just when I felt that Immortality would only know me as a helpmeet, just when I'd gained six pounds, Farce, as it will when your happy-quota shades off into urban gray, intervened: all pinks, oranges, reds." Thus comedy begets tragedy: just as Art Spiegelman could best explain his family's Holocaust tragedy in comic book form, Gurganus makes the ultimate tragedy of Plays Well With Others farcical...
...moment in Rainmaker when Rudy is introduced to the sleazy lawyer Bruiser (Mickey Rourke). Bruiser's office is appropriately gloomy and uninviting--there is a tank of menacing sharks stationed behind his desk. We smile at the touch and appreciate the subtlety. Coppola, however, feels it necessary to explain his "genius." In the middle of the conversation, Bruiser interrupts to ask Rudy "Did you see my sharks? Get it, lawyers, sharks? Get it?" Yes, we all get it, Mr. Coppola...
With such a pervasive influence, it's hard to believe that the main problem with the bagels available in Harvard Square is that they aren't made in the Empire State. Still, New Yorkers have developed no shortage of urban myths to explain the superiority of their regions bagels, myths which inevitably culminate in the conclusion that bagels simply can't be baked as well elsewhere. "It's the water," several friends explained to me over the break, each taking on a hushed-voiced, as if entrusting me with a valuable secret...
...might be expected that Al Gore will explain everything when he arrives next week ? except it was Gore himself who played bad cop Tuesday. "We are perfectly prepared to walk away from an agreement that we don't think will work," said the environmentalist Veep. Now that's a poker face...