Word: explained
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...that are realigning world markets. El-Erian offered a number of hypothesis centered around the idea that a new set of countries are emerging with systemic importance that have far-reaching implications. “How do you know...when conventional wisdom fails, when your models can no longer explain what’s going on, when words like conundrums, puzzles, aberrations appear in the Financial Times,” he said. He cited as examples the ‘interest-rate conundrum’—the fact that long-term interest rates have failed to rise with...
...Situationist writer Guy Debord as a character witness on Colbert's behalf, who cited the comedian's brilliant "semiotic inversion." Bringing in a French theorist to help you prove someone is funny is like asking a structural engineer to show why Pamela Anderson Lee is attractive: They can help explain how it's done but you still have to judge for yourself whether the end result is effective...
...very easy to explain concepts and techniques and schemes to him because he really did want to learn,” Hurd says. “We have a lot of kids that go through the peewee ranks here and they think they know everything by the time they get to seventh, eighth grade. [But] this is a kid who needed to be taught everything, and he was like a sponge...
...sampling quickly evolved into montage masterworks by artists like EPMD, the Beastie Boys, and De La Soul.But, not surprisingly in our über-litigious country, the golden age of sampling didn’t last. In 1990, Vanilla Ice had his fifteen minutes of shame trying to explain the profound difference between his “Ice Ice Baby” beat and the Queen and David Bowie song “Under Pressure,” which apparently revolved on a grace note difference so subtle that only classically-trained musicians like Mr. Ice (but not the original...
...worst writer of his generation.” The piece, written by journalist Greil Marcus, lambastes Birkerts in a recent review of essays. “Perhaps [Marcus] views himself as the presiding eminence and guardian of the hipster 60s,” retorts Birkerts. That would explain the journalist’s “obviously bitchy” remarks says the maligned scholar. Marcus quotes a line from Birkerts’ essay, which asks, “Can I possibly convey how those words moved in me, how that cadence undid in a minute’s time...