Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand why. After compiling a mediocre .500 dual meet record and capping off the season with a last place finish at the Heptagonal Championships, there is nowhere to go in the standings but up. Although the stats of last year forbear optimism, the context of the poor standings explain the true rebuilding nature of last year's season...
...understand why. After compiling a mediocre. 500 dual meet record and capping off the season with a last place finish at the Heptagonal Championships, there is nowhere to go in the standings but up. Although the stats of last year forbear optimism, the context of the poor standings explain the true rebuilding nature of last year's season...
Former presidential aide Harold Ickes may explain donor sleepovers in Lincoln bedroom...
Johnny Chung could explain why he gave $366,000 to get White House entry for Chinese business associates...
...even these exemplary cases suffer from the cloying taint of kitsch. Close Encounters reaches an anticlimax with its hackneyed vision of dainty space guys trooping out of the mother ship. Contact cannot explain its scientist-heroine's obsession without mawkish flashbacks to her childhood as an orphan; and when she finally meets the Vegans, they take the shape of long-lost Dad--to make it "easier" for her. Apparently our kind can handle only so much strangeness at a time: we travel for light-years, down through the raging chaos of cosmic wormholes, only to arrive...