Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same way a teacher's puzzlement can be a source of help to a student, a student's puzzlement can help show a teacher where the message isn't getting across," Tarrant said. "That's one reason why, when it has been feasible, I try to run a section in the Core course...
Behind all the arguments about defaulting, restructuring and re-establishing capital, there is nearly universal puzzlement at what motivates Suharto to put his country, and himself, at such risk. Part of the answer can be found 275 miles east of Jakarta in the central Java village of Kemusu, where he was born. There, for centuries, peasants have done the bidding of the village chief in exchange for his protection, governed by a social code as intricate as the shared irrigation system. Deeply superstitious, the men of Kemusu have changed little in the half-century since Indonesia won its independence from...
...perfectly sad attempt to tie these songs to the actual movie, clips of quotes from Bean are peppered between tracks. There really is no musical reason for these connectors, but they certainly contribute to the overall confusion. If nothing else, Bean: The Album will maintain a constant transition from puzzlement to doubling over in short bouts of laughter. But the investment of time and mental energy really isn't worth the minimal entertainment that Bean's soundtrack offers...
...virtual American family has suffered a real death. The feelings will be--and already are--peculiarly complicated. When I first heard the news on CNN, I suffered a momentary mental lag, an instant of ontological puzzlement: Had a human being been slain, or a sitcom character? How was Dr. Huxtable--Bill Cosby, rather--going to handle this one? How would he break such searing news to Phyllicia Rashad, his TV wife, and how could the tragedy ever be resolved in under 30 minutes...
...fire storm of ridicule and puzzlement set off by the Armory Show, which 300,000 people saw during the course of its run, Duchamp in particular benefited, on the basis of a single picture: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912. It became the star freak of the show--its bearded lady, its dog-faced boy. People compared it to a Navajo rug, a cyclone in a shingle factory, an earthquake in the subway. A dull brown painting in a Cubist idiom, its overlapping planes were partly derived from the motion-analysis photos of Etienne-Jules Marey. Its very title...