Word: explainers
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...power in the projector. The film is nothing more than a hodge-podge of supposedly funny scenes with a minimum of continuity. In the opening scene there appears with Myrna Loy a dead ringer for Taylor, but he soon passes out of the picture and never returns, even to explain his striking resemblance to the star. All in all, one cannot help concluding that the screwball tendency in comedy so easily overdone, has been carried a number of degrees...
...example of a Harvard professor of Economics, when he does not name, is given as having refused to explain the contemporaneous situation to his class on the day of the banking crash...
Requested to explain cosmic rays in a five-minute speech at the New York World's Fair illumination ceremony, Physicist Albert Einstein objected strenuously that a whole volume would not be enough, finally made a stab at it in 700 words...
...being caught by the police. He dreams that he is coming out of a pub with his pals; a crowd gathers; one of the revelers sings a song, but it turns into a recital of Earwicker's sins and folly. He dreams that he is called upon to explain the fable of "the Mookse and the Gripes"; as he begins, the Mookse comes swaggering up and attacks the Gripes, and suddenly Earwicker himself is going over one of his encounters with the police...
...plot in the novel, no story in the usual sense of the word. What happens to Earwicker or what has happened to him-whether, indeed, he is as central a figure as he appears to be-is open to question: readers can construct a dozen theories to explain the form of the book, and find plausible evidence for each. Thus, it sometimes seems that sane speeches are not part of the dream, but voices from the waking world which dimly reach the sleeper. Sometimes it seems that he is hearing confused sounds of some turbulent life going on around...