Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BATMAN. The summer's blockbuster comes to video stores this week. Finally, the handful of people who still haven't seen Batman will be able to explain its appeal to the even tinier (but discerning) group who find the film slow, murky, uninvolving and -- except for its visual grandeur, which may be lost on the small screen -- witless...
...feverish performances in Dangerous Liaisons last year. But besides spoiling the fun, this approach / blurs the work's value as a cautionary tale, capable of reminding us that motiveless malignity is a potent force in every age and one that not even Freud -- let alone humanistically inclined moviemakers -- can explain away...
...explain. I was in Washington two years ago, right after the U.S. Government slapped punitive tariffs on Japanese electronics goods over the semiconductor issue. The mood was hysterical. At a party an American politician told me that because the U.S. and the Soviet Union were moving closer together, the world power balance had shifted, and Japan was no longer very important. He had the nerve to tell me that the Americans and the Russians share the same identity because they are white. Well, that's fine. But if Moscow is looking to Washington for high technology, Japan is the country...
...starchy GOP lineup doesn't fully explain the Democratic victories. The Democratic "trump card" was clearly the abortion-rights issue. During the campaign, which in some cases began to resemble a plebiscite on abortion rights. several Republicans backpedaled frantically from hardline anti-abortion stances. They either reversed their positions, as did Giuliani and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jim Courter, or minimized the issue, as did President Bush last Tuesday...
...need to explain that I, an electrician from Gdansk, am also entitled to invoke them," said Walesa...