Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...writer of TIME'S Medicine section, Anastasia Toufexis often finds herself trying to elucidate medical matters that scientists themselves are hard-pressed to explain. Says she: "The stock response to a science journalist's question seems to be, 'If I knew that, I'd have one foot on the boat to Sweden' -to pick up a Nobel Prize." Unanswered questions were a large and tantalizing part of Toufexis' work on this week's cover story on interferon, a substance that researchers feel may be helpful both in the treatment of cancer...
Because an accurate count could lead to increased federal aid, minority leaders generally have been enthusiastically backing the census effort. Creek Indian Leader Steadham has been traveling for the Census Bureau through Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee to meet with groups of Indians and explain how the forms must be filled out. Coleman Young, Detroit's black mayor, is appearing in TV ads in that city to reassure his fellow citizens that they have nothing to fear from the survey...
...Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has opened nine offices in Texas, California and Illinois to promote the survey. The New York-based Spanish International Network, which has 41 affiliate Spanish-language stations, is scheduling a 90-minute entertainment extravaganza. As part of the show, Hispanic celebrities will explain each question on the form and fill out a sample answer...
...Right. On Iran, we explain that Roosevelt visited Tehran, knows the city inside...
There may be some truth in all this, but these triangular banalities no more explain the dancer's sad fate than they illuminate his genius. His troubles with what would now be called "relationships" are the symptoms rather than the causes of his collapse. Some people will be titillated by the openness with which homosexual love is portrayed in the film. But this is mostly a slow, cautious biography, elegantly attentive to Edwardian decor and dress. It slights Nijinsky's melodramatic story and, finally, offends with its relentless reductionism. There are times when excesses of good taste become...