Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heaven's Gate cult. He then began to read aloud what they had left on their web page: "As was promised--the keys to Heaven's Gate are here again in Ti and Do as they were in Jesus and His Father 2000 yrs. ago." I tried to explain what these people had believed, based on what I had read in the paper that morning...
...onslaught of pop psychology that has followed the grim discoveries at Rancho Santa Fe, so-called mind control experts have speculated that the fault somehow lay in the tech world, that something about the Web explained Heaven's Gate and the isolation of its members from the cushioning norms of society. Not true. The cult had been around for 22 years, and had seen better days. Most of its members were Web novices at best. Yet in some ways, the Web was made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility...
...seems to know. Authorities from the FBI to local sheriff's offices agree that drug addiction plays a big role, but the drug plague is not new. They also point to the proliferation of less secure suburban branches, yet this too is a long-term trend that cannot fully explain the 1996-97 spike...
This early background helps explain the irrepressible fondness for popular culture--cigarette ads, Marilyns and so forth--that kept surfacing in his work in the 1950s, to the annoyance of some American critics. De Kooning was never a "pure" artist, partly because he was not trained to be one. But that was what enabled him to connect with America in a way few avant-garde painters had. He loved the lushness, the grittiness, the obtrusive weirdness of American cultural vernaculars. Though by the end of the '50s, laden with celebrity, he had become the man for younger artists to beat...
...East bloc archives. He reveals, for example, that in spite of their threats and military maneuvers, Brezhnev and Co. never intended to invade Poland, short of an anticommunist rebellion. Dobbs is always clear and persuasive, but he tries so hard to be everywhere--Poland, Yugoslavia, China, Russia--and to explain everything, that his survey ends up feeling disappointingly two-dimensional...