"I'm like, 'Do you guys want publicity or not?' " one television reporter explained to another, recounting her conversation with a spokesman for the boosters.
Then she was copied in on an email in which the recruiter explained to another why he had chosen another applicant.
When I explained to another that it was customary that the bride and groom touch the priest's and parents feet after the ceremony, she commented that it sounded like a demeaning ritual and asked if it was really necessary.
She explained to another newspaper at the time: "A girl from the Sun telephoned and told me they had received lots of calls from irate ratepayers in Edinburgh about nudity".
In a 1985 comic strip by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, one character explained to another her criteria for going to see a movie: does it feature 1) at least two women, who have 2) at least one conversation, about 3) something other than a man?
But most of the world took it as the epitome of heroism on the old frontier, and as a demonstration of the code that Gary Cooper had once shyly explained to another writer, Niven Busch: "Just make me the hero and everything will be fine".
