Word: explainers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this narcissism or catharsis? It's hard to tell the difference nowadays, but several VTV veterans explain their decisions to bare all in the language of therapy and personal growth. Survivor contestant Sonja Christopher, 63, was already a survivor--of breast cancer--and signed on as a way of moving on. "I had been through a lot in the past two years," she says. "Following this fantasy, doing this crazy thing, was a way to try to heal myself. It was a survival instinct." "I felt suffocated and trapped in the life I was in," says The Real World...
TIME: Can you set the record straight and explain your comments about homosexuals as "deviants...
...people can explain why Boston has 70-degree weather in December and snow in April...
...fact, high school stuff might not be such a great idea, after all. At Harvard, you have the opportunity to be someone completely new. That varsity football letter jacket might be hard to explain if you come here and decide you want to join, say, the Advocate...
...praise and attention, presents Jim's story as a series of quietly, precisely rendered vignettes. In the first one, the birthday boy is allowed to help the grownups hoe the cornfield in preparation for spring planting. Thrilled at this recognition of his new maturity, Jim listens to Uncle Zeno explain how to use the hoe and then sets to work. After a while, though, the task becomes less thrilling. He puts down his hoe and starts throwing rocks: "When Jim picked up his hoe, he noticed that it was about the length of a baseball bat. He grasped the handle...