Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...series of set pieces, one following the other like a series of slides." Yet George Leftwich, a gifted offensive player at Villanova, currently a college coach, is occasionally puzzled. He has asked his son George Jr., a starting guard on this year's Princeton team, to explain the intricacies of Carril's system. "He gives me the typical college kid's answer. 'Dad, you'd never understand.' " The possibilities can be paralyzing to opponents. Says Dartmouth coach Paul Cormier: "If we're not careful, we end up spending the half time wondering what adjustments he is going to make, instead...
...traffic jams were not merely an irritation, but also an inspiration. As the capital's gridlock slowed cars to an average speed of 6 m.p.h. and frustrated drivers, the Spanish businessman saw an opportunity. Why not provide stalled motorists with portable telephones so they could call ahead and explain why they were delayed...
...short, the magazine is the product of a totalitarian impulse, (which may explain its obsession with the pre-Vatican II incarnation of the Catholic church, with its insistence on doctrinal purity and intolerance of dissent...
...meaning was perfectly evident to delegates from the rebellious Baltics. They refused to participate in the voting, arguing that because they will soon be independent they should not take part in creating new Soviet institutions. After the session, Gorbachev invited six Baltic delegates to his office to explain their position to him. He then told them he stood firmly on his plan to create a new federation and would stick to it in future negotiations with the Baltic states. Said Estonian journalist Tarmu Tammerk: "This was the first time he has admitted that Baltic independence is something we can legitimately...
Some orthodox Jews have lately expanded Peres' reasoning to the suppression of the intifada, but with a bilblical twist. "Well," they explain, "Joshua smote all the indigenous peoples who gave him a hard time, so why shouldn...