Word: unpack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sydney Opera House. During a question-and-answer session with the audience, she was asked whether her problems are the result of being pigeonholed and stereotyped. "There is some of that," she said, adding that "there are many factors at work--I couldn't even begin to unpack them...
...nervous mother spent the summer checking off all 174, actually, make that 173 items on The List: Mom let me unpack the athletic supporter after we received the third edition of The List, which made distinctions between male and female items. Only on the day of my departure, when we made a mad dash to CVS for anti-fungal powder, did she sit back, relax a little and begin to let her daughter...
Broken Arrow, a bomb-ticking chase movie about a daredevil pilot (Travolta) who steals two nuclear weapons, shows how easily the two cinemas can coexist. It flies at the speed of Macho 2 while allowing Woo to unpack his full cinematic arsenal: overhead shots, plenty of steamy atmosphere (Travolta smokes a lot), Cuisinart editing of the action scenes, slow motion to prolong the jitters and, for dialogue scenes that other directors would stand flatfooted and watch, lithe little tracking shots. If film school were fun, Woo would be the nutty professor...
...writer's explorations of the realms of public and private. "I think we have a lot to learn from her insistence [on the importance of the separation between public and private]...where does that line run and how should it be drawn," she says. She is working to "unpack these terms" and find the place of gender in an interpretation of Arendt's thought...
...dean spent her first day of work in a series of introductions and re-introductions and periodic efforts to unpack the stacks of books in her new office, she said...