Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Rest, which will be published in October, concludes with the death of its hero. What's more, Updike himself has been fueling this story, both in a June speech at the American Booksellers' Association convention in Las Vegas and in the New York Times Book Review. How to explain all this fuss about the fate of an imaginary character? Well, Harry C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom first appeared 30 years ago in Rabbit, Run and then re-emerged in Rabbit Redux (1971) and Rabbit Is Rich (1981). A lot of readers have periodically checked the progress of their lives against that...
...whirlwind through the next eight years of Gilliam's new life. He and Indigo get married, have a son, and eventually move into the same Brooklyn brownstone Gilliam grew up in. What Gilliam now does for a living is a complete mystery. Lee does not take the time to explain this. He seems concerned only with driving home the virtues of the family and having his film neatly end the same way it began. The film opens with the young Gilliam practicing the trumpet under his mother's watchful eye while his friends urge him to come outside and play...
...scholarly Souter soon became the perfect complement to the gregarious, politically wired Rudman. The two, along with Rath, who headed Bob Dole's losing presidential campaign in the 1988 New Hampshire primary, became best friends. Rath joked that his job in the office was to go to lunch and "explain to Warren what David had just said...
...settlers, then appointed Brazil's foremost environmental activist, Jose Lutzenberger, to enforce the program. In an interview with TIME, Collor was unapologetic about the abrupt turnaround. "On questions of ecology, we have made a fundamental commitment to life," he said. "We have nothing to hide and nothing to explain...
...there is more separating 1990s youngsters from the sense of place and history that so clearly marked their parents' childhoods. Most older white Southerners overtly or passively supported massive resistance in the '50s and '60s. What can they possibly say to their children to justify or explain, let alone glorify, the wretched record of racial murders, political demagogues, separate rest rooms and school closings? If the South once venerated a past that would not die, it now has a more recent past that must be denied -- or ignored...