Word: expounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Valentine s Day. It was decided by FM s conceptual whiz-kids that the theme of their endpaper would be "love." Unfortunately, these very same whiz-kids failed to recognize that, given my circumstances, of the six thousand undergraduates on this campus, I was the least appropriate person to expound on such a theme. Still, I was coerced, cajoled and bamboozled into ripping open my festering emotional wounds, all for the purpose of filling the back page of a magazine that most people read on the toilet...
...emotion. Now it's hammering him for trying too hard and showing too much. Of course he was sometimes overbearing at Dartmouth--asking faux-Clintonian personal questions ("How old is your child, Corey?") and then, after the event, sitting on the lip of the stage for 90 minutes to expound--impressively, by the way--on policy until everyone was exhausted, and Tipper said, "Al, I'm going to have to go." But the interesting question isn't whether Gore's exhibitionism is a tactic (it is) but whether groveling works any better in politics than it does in love...
...Spanking the Monkey and the impeccably funny Flirting with Disaster, directs Three Kings with the acute satirical eye that made his earlier films so successful. The compassion that made Flirting with Disaster so much less cruel a comedy than, say, There's Something About Mary allows him to expound on and reveal the hypocrisy, prejudices and petty acts of violence of the American soldiers in Iraq without flattening his characters into types or making his script implausible. There are ample comedic moments: ass jokes, an exploding cow, the presence of Marky Mark (who despite his accomplished acting in this film...
Gergen says he wants to use his HLS platform as a bully pulpit to expound on the unhappiness he feels prevails in some professions, including...
...notoriety due to its members: Joe Daniels and Scott Lucas. In a world of elaborate back-up bands with three guitarists on every song, Daniels and Lucas have managed to create a hard-edge duo without sacrificing the complex underlying melodies that rock fans demand. The liner notes expound on the duties of the two collaborators: Daniels drums and whistles, while Lucas takes care of "the other stuff...