Word: explainers
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Given that there are a limited number of scouts, it makes sense that college towns in metropolitan areas are going to get a majority of the viewing time. But that still does not explain how Harvard remains on par with national powerhouses and cross-town rivals Boston University and Boston College...
While the record number seems to be a logical explanation for the wide discrepancies between polling agencies, it still does not explain the volatility of individual polling firms over short periods of time...
...affair that, like "Gun Crazy" unfolds with dream-logic. The unforgettable opening, for instance, finds Sterling Hayden striding valiantly toward a classically styled showdown - toting a harpoon on his shoulder. An unseen gunfighter mocks him for his choice of weapon, and the movie proceeds, in one long flashback, to explain how Hayden got into this strange predicament. "Terror" is not Lewis's finest western, but it does stand as a fitting conclusion to his body of work. You see, there's this one oblique view of the town's main street and a big wagon wheel is prominently placed...
...astonishing actress," says Gray, now that they're friends again. "I got the sense that she has an interesting and troubled past. It's the only thing that could explain the depth of emotion." He may be referring obliquely to Theron's adolescence, when her father was shot and killed by her mother in self-defense. Though her mother wasn't charged with a crime, Theron previously told reporters that her father died in a car accident. These days Theron, who lives near her mother, who has also immigrated to Los Angeles, prefers not to talk about the tragedy...
Buechner did not venture an answer to my question about the meaning of "great laughter." Difficult enough to talk about grace; impossible to explain laughter. We passed on to a discussion of secrets. I thought again of the humorless man I had met, and it struck me his affliction amounted to a form of stupidity. Stupidity, too, is one of the mysteries...