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Meanwhile, the topography of her world is, in-explicably, constantly in flux — now it's forest, now it's ice.
Heaven Help Us 2009
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Yet, inexplicably – or perhaps all too explicably -- no prominent, elected Dalit politician has championed this cause.
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The second "a", being unstressed in PSem, was probably pronounced as a short schwa and thus explicably inaudible to some Indo-European ears.
Thoughts on Nostratic, Semitic 'seven' & neolithic trade 2007
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The second "a", being unstressed in PSem, was probably pronounced as a short schwa and thus explicably inaudible to some Indo-European ears.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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I am, indeed, explicably thrilled over that possibility.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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For a film to be a remake of another movie it explicably has to refer to that movie, otherwise the two just happen to have the same original behind them.
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Not as much as that Rand picture, though less explicably.
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A gentleman once with Warner Bros. complimented me highly on my novel Leaving El Paso (in reality Leaving Cheyenne), and a gentleman at Columbia, even less explicably, referred to The Last Picture Show as The Last Saturday Night (this could have been because the latter was one of five hundred alternate titles Columbia offered Peter Bogdanovich, at a time when they feared the public might confuse The Last Picture Show with The Last Movie).
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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A gentleman once with Warner Bros. complimented me highly on my novel Leaving El Paso (in reality Leaving Cheyenne), and a gentleman at Columbia, even less explicably, referred to The Last Picture Show as The Last Saturday Night (this could have been because the latter was one of five hundred alternate titles Columbia offered Peter Bogdanovich, at a time when they feared the public might confuse The Last Picture Show with The Last Movie).
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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A gentleman once with Warner Bros. complimented me highly on my novel Leaving El Paso (in reality Leaving Cheyenne), and a gentleman at Columbia, even less explicably, referred to The Last Picture Show as The Last Saturday Night (this could have been because the latter was one of five hundred alternate titles Columbia offered Peter Bogdanovich, at a time when they feared the public might confuse The Last Picture Show with The Last Movie).
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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