Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level of the wine and breathes in deeply. He meditates for a moment and attempts to describe the bouquet. He may have to repeat the process a number of times before he can come out with a suitable adjective, such as flowery, chalky, flinty, sour, or maybe just plain grape. Although preferring imaginative words, the members try to avoid such phrases as "the smell of soldiers marching through Elysian fields...
...changing her costume as frequently as possible. Mature simply wiggles his ears, whether hanging by his hands from an iron bar twenty feet off the ground or watching singer Russell sulk beside a piano. Hoagy Carmichael looks stupid as a troubadour-hillbilly-cupid type, and Vincent Price looks just plain tired...
...Just Plain Harry Harry Truman plays no role better than that of a colloquial, foot-scraping, friendly fella from out there in Missouri. Last week, his 358th week in the presidency, he ran through the part of just plain Harry without missing a cue or flatting a tone...
Prewar Moscow moviegoers loved to watch Tarzan hurtling from bough to bough, keening his apelike jungle call. Now, a Soviet film introduction makes it plain, Tarzan may safely be admired again. After all, says the preface, though he was the child of a rich Englishman, he was the only survivor of a shipwreck and was nurtured by apes, and so was "uncorrupted by bourgeois civilization...
...Enchanting, stimulating, beautiful, active, lively, lovely, colorful, unusual, and just plain sound ballet," said the News, and the rest of the critics agreed. With his new Caracole, George Balanchine, composer of probably more ballets-and certainly fewer flops-than any other living choreographer, wowed them again...