He used Thursday's speech to explain a string of controversial national security decisions, including the apparent contradiction between withholding photos showing abuse of detainees and the release of classified memorandums about interrogation.
All of which has placed Ms. Meadow, in her 30th year as artistic director, and other theater officials in the uncomfortable position of trying to explain a string of bad luck just as the company should be celebrating a major accomplishment: the opening of the remodeled Biltmore Theater on West 47th Street.
Foxconn, which produces electronics and computer components for Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other global companies, has been struggling this year to explain a string of suicides among young workers at its huge complexes in the city of Shenzhen, where the company employs about 420,000 workers.
How else to explain a pretty convincing string of non-victories?
"I think my feminism must have been of a pre-war kind," she explains, as she praises a string of strong single women, while acknowledging that at the same time her desire to find the right man for herself.
In an effort to explain himself, he spits out a string of suggestively inarticulate nouns: "bebé, padres, crimen, tres muertos, politico, negros, imperialismo, Nueva York".
So a promising new "stress-transfer" theory, which sets out to explain how an earthquake in one place affects the probability of subsequent earthquakes nearby, is causing a bit of a rumble.One of the theory's leading proponents, Ross Stein of the US Geological Survey, likes to explain its underlying principles with a string of house bricks interconnected by elastic "bungee" cords.
Glamorously adorned with some of her jewelry, she presides behind the glass counters, happily explaining the finer points of a string of Tahitian pearls or the clarity of the diamonds in a 30's Cartier bracelet.
He said that he was at a loss to explain his string of disciplinary issues, but added that he felt as if he had let people down, including Commissioner Roger Goodell, who had lauded him after the Super Bowl victory for apparently righting his career.
But he has never fully explained his high living, replete with a string of houses, flashy cars and collection of Breitling watches each said to cost around $30,000.
On Wednesday, George Dohrmann, Sports Illustrated's top investigative reporter, released an exposé of the U.C.L.A. basketball team, and attempted to explain its string of disappointing seasons through a series of perceived diversions from the "U.C.L.A. Way".
