Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barring stupidity, hypocrisy alone can explain why universal conscription seems to be the last thing on the antiwar agenda. That's because many of the antiwar protesters are Neil Bushes themselves...
Adam S. Geyer '93 (Helena Handbasket) and Peter Ferren '92 (Dinah Meetcha) are in dispensible roles as Mel's doo-wopping back-up singers, popping up periodically to explain the plot's complexities (we use that word loosely...
...precocious sensitivity -- to be upset about the bombing in Baghdad. All this hand-wringing makes it seem that children have not managed to get through wars before and that death is something that can be understood, if only enough network anchors and child psychologists take to the airwaves to explain it. Fortunately, the average child, who sees more explicit violence viewing Saturday-morning cartoons, is not likely to remain alarmed too long over anything that justifies increased television-watching privileges and provides air cover for a variety of mischief...
...fact, the New Zealand-born Arnett and his wife have been separated for years. And although some friends and family members differ about the alleged Viet Cong connections of Arnett's in-laws, the issue is beside the point. Asked to explain the relevance of his remarks, an unrepentant Simpson would say only that such information is often revealed about public officials, rarely about journalists. Arnett, he added, "is being coddled by an enemy government...
...about one's business. People become passers by, moving through neutral spaces between private point and private point, between home and office, insulating themselves from the unexpected. The Conscience of the Eye is an attempt to explore the origins and implications of this condition of insulation, to explain the curious feeling of unconnectedness that is familiar to anyone who has passed a homeless man on a grate, or observed through plate-glass windows the comings and goings of strange offices and apartments...