Word: explainers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Government lawyers believe the family got the outcome it wanted, other than the boy himself: a televised martyrdom that would allow them to hold their heads up forever in Little Havana. How else to explain, they ask, the family's curious refusal to travel to Washington for the week-long cooling-off period? All night long, the family said it didn't want to fly; it preferred to drive. When Podhurst told Reno, at 4 a.m. on Saturday, that he couldn't get the family to make up its mind about leaving town, Reno called it a "deal breaker...
...scientists studying the business of parenting, parting the curtain on the animal world helps explain not only how mothering strategies work but also how they sometimes break down. Confused teens aren't the only mothers who abandon their babies; other mammals do it too. Parents may recoil when a Susan Smith drowns her sons in a South Carolina pond, but scientists routinely observe infanticidal animals--apparently driven by similarly dark demons--committing similarly black acts...
...covers, too; Duritz's remake of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" stands out, as does Willie Nelson's interpretation of "Everybody's Talkin'." Even Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa (featured in Buena Vista Social Club) joins in, performing "El Guateque de Don Thomas," a traditional Cuban song; as the liner notes explain, Cuban music was popular along the Gulf of Mexico...
This choice of indicating mood through lighting had another negative effect. Ghosts dressed in white and representing memories move in and out of scenes to help explain a living character's actions. What the ghosts are doing should be important, but the stage is just dark enough to make their actions indecipherable...
...Please describe yourself in three words. If one of these words is not "loyal," please explain the omission...