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Laid out with a meticulous scholarly apparatus, as though this were the correspondence of Grover Cleveland, every turn in the songwriter’s story is deep-dived for exact chronology, and every name casually dropped by Porter gets a worried, explicatory footnote.

At almost every point, the explicatory 80-minute first act and more dramatic hour-long second bend over backward to elucidate its themes.

Both made compensating offers of explicatory artwork and exhibitions, while Yale promised to name a new college after Pauli Murray, a civil-rights leader.

Both made compensating offers of explicatory artwork and exhibitions, while Yale promised to name a new college after Pauli Murray, a civil-rights leader.

In the blink of a dianoga’s eye, however, loyal Star Wars fans clarified the situation—by posting an explicatory article on Wookieepedia.