Word: plain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film utilizes the entire orchestra most of the time and owes quite a lot to Stravinksy and Berg, as well as Kurt Weill. Although much of the music is impressive, particularly such numbers as "This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich" and "Penis Dimension," it is also just plain ugly. The words to these numbers are real funny, if you go in for Zappa's type of humor, but they are frequently inaudible, so it is advisable to listen to the album carefully before seeing the movie...
...early September, two plain-clothesmen entered the office of the Foundation and without identifying themselves told the receptionist that they wanted to see Hakim. Hakim, who had been in a meeting in another room, came out. When he did, the plainclothesmen drew their guns. It is not clear whether or not they also identified themselves at this point. In any event. Hakim fled from their guns, and the receptionist raced into the room where the meeting was going on. She screamed. "There's some white men trying to shoot Malik." By this time, the people in the room had caught...
...trial of Sacco and Vanzetti progressed, it became apparent that the Commonwealth's case rested largely on uncertain eyewitness accounts and ambiguous ballistics evidence. The idea of a government conspiracy against two innocent but radical foreigners began to grow in the minds of liberals, intellectuals, socialists newspapermen and plain old New England folk...
Representatives from 69 states, including assorted sheikdoms, poured into Iran for the monumental Jash'n (celebration) marking the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Awaiting the guests on a dusty, windswept, 5,000-ft.-high plain next to the ruins of Persepolis was a city that even Scheherazade could never have imagined: a 160-acre oasis studded with three huge royal "tents" and 59 lesser ones arranged in a star pattern. The tents were more or less permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built...
...Plain of Jars was bombed daily while Branfman was in Laos, but he was unaware of it for several months, even though he lived only 100 miles from the Plain. "What the Plain of Jars symbolizes is that people on the vague frontiers can be vaporized without anyone in this country knowing anything about it," he said...