Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...word." Beefs Wahlberg: "People don't give us credit. Janet Jackson sat down with her producers and came up with the concept of Rhythm Nation. That's the same thing we did with our album." If there is a unifying concept behind Step by Step, it is one of forthright -- indeed, brazen -- commercial calculation, which is one thing that sets the Kids apart from the Ninja Turtles and the Simpsons, who fell into their fads and weren't made (or drawn) to order. "We created a niche," Scott says. "And we filled a void...
...such clear and forthright delineations of the problems facing modern universities that Bok's outstanding qualities as an administrator come through. Unlike many in his position, he is neither a nearsighted bureaucrat nor a self-important fulminator. Rather, he proves himself once again as a remarkably incisive social scientist, separating one by one the strands of an intricate web of forces affecting higher education...
...communist, a convinced communist. For some that may be fantasy but for me it is my main goal." For those who follow the travails of Mikhail Gorbachev, that forthright credo, proclaimed last December, is increasingly shadowed by questions of apostasy. Is this guardian of Marxism really a true believer or the architect of a final loss of faith...
...Influence never persuasively explains why cautious Michael would let an obviously devious character like Alex so far into his life so quickly without checking his references. It is too busy putting on airs to deal with such practical matters. How one yearns, sometimes, for the subliterary bustle and forthright cheesiness of an old-fashioned B picture...
...times, his principles seem unbelieavably reactionary. His number one rule of University governance reads, "Not everything is improved by making it more democratic." But Rosovsky has been around long enough to anticipate the criticisms that such forthright remarks will inevitably raise--a post-script to one chapter is entitled "I can hear it already...