Word: explained
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...Dukakis is the personification of "safe sex"; Jackson is "the Cat in the Hat." The / author is best at describing intractable topics, such as the complex origins of Bush's foreign policy. But when politics intrudes, he sometimes seems to miss the point. Blumenthal is still at pains to explain Hart's "philosophy" -- something that in the public mind boiled down to little more than unsafe sex -- and he makes no attempt to explain the self-destructive impulses involved in the Donna Rice affair. Similarly, Blumenthal accuses the Dukakis campaign of "intellectual" failures, though the Democratic nominee's mistakes mainly...
...reader. Thernstrom avoids overblown prose, and her work is mimetic. She cannot explain the reasons for the egregious crime, because, she suggests, there is not always an answer to why. Given the topic and the author's near-brutal realism, The Dead Girl at times reads like an extended obituary. But the work never fails to be engrossing and rewarding...
...speech to the invitation-only crowd of30 at the Kennedy School, Zhelev discussedprospects for economic reform in Bulgaria, whileattempting to explain his country's plight to thecrowd of academics...
...amazed, but I patiently tried to explain the matter to him. "Don't you see, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, that if we form a military organization with some socialist countries but not the G.D.R. and Albania, we'll be sending a signal to our Western foes. We'll be telling them, to put it crudely, 'You are allowed to eat up Albania and the G.D.R.' We'd just be building up the appetite of the Western revanchists...
Lourdes officials suggest that the shortage may even be a blessing in disguise. "It's a good opportunity to explain to people that you don't just come to Lourdes to drink the water or get dunked," said spokesman Loic Bondu. "What's important is the act and personal conversion. Faith isn't found in water alone." Nor, town officials might be praying, is tourism...