Word: explains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treating these sequentially, Marker intercuts these segments, making sure to indicate clearly which point of view is being given. Multiple points of view, equally valid and independent, destroy any direct causal relationship between Koumiko and the city of Tokyo. Both exist and are conscious of each other, but to explain Tokyo would no more solve the Koumiko mystery than explaining Koumiko would solve Tokyo...
Others of those arrested said that their defense was almost purely a political one. They said that they tried to arrange their defense in such a way as to explain the political issues of the strike...
...GENERAL PUBLIC suffered through another concert in Sanders Theatre last Monday night. Why Harvard is the only school of any consequence anywhere in the country without a decent concert hall no one can explain. Most of us are tired of quarters for violin, cello, piano and street noises and tired of wiping out neighbors' sweat off our knees. It is a disgrace to force any musicians of merit to attempt to perform in the decrepit fire trap...
...certain weakness in the area of intonation on the part of the first violinist, his opening phrase in the Menuetto was positively horrid. Here I pause to remark that throughout the evening Alexander Schneider played badly out of tune and with a thin, unpleasant sound. I cannot either explain or excuse such playing as no other member of the ensemble was so afflicted. His ear-jarring performance marred much of the concert of the audience...
...Third World nation. Amico has correctly realized that traditional narrative, no matter how portentous, is inadequate for describing a social reality that lies beneath surface story lines. Therefore he has interweaved his narrative with a conventional documentary which attempts to set Miguel's story in context, to explain in party why Miguel is unskilled, why a country so rich in resources has so little for its people. The answer lies in Brazil's history of foreign economic dominations, a history of successive one-product economies (sugar, gold, diamonds, rubber, coffee) developed by foreign capitalists and then subverted by fluctuations...