Word: plain
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Perhaps a woman with cheekbones like ice cliffs gets called plain because of her willingness--almost insistence--on transforming for each role. (On receiving one of her countless awards, Streep thanked longtime makeup artist Roy Helland for continuing "to do his best to destroy my natural good looks.") Though Streep's not the type to meekly offer herself up to the makeup trailer. "I thought, We'll sit down and we'll talk, and Meryl will try on a few things and we'll choose one," says Frankel of Streep's look in Prada. "No. Meryl made the decision...
Garrison Keillor is the voice of America's shrinking center, a melancholy flatlands existentialist who has masked his often dark materials under a slow-spoken amiability. His Lake Wobegon stories are nearly always about the failure of ideas and ambitions that the plain and simple folks of his fictional home town are too shy, too modest, to openly admit, let alone effectively act upon...
...Bush has not jumped to use military means against Iran, while Merkel has been stressing that everything needs to be done to find a diplomatic solution and a consensus among the major powers. Oliver Hauss Dortmund, Germany time's story on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made plain that the country's 26 million people are subjected to the desires of a tyrant. With all the loans, oil discounts and financing deals that Chávez grants to Venezuela's neighbors by way of increasing his political muscle, he has truly given away the shirt off our backs, although...
...error? Where, in your daily professional and social life, is the evidence to the contrary? Reasonable people cannot disagree about the untruths enmeshed with the world-altering events of the last few years. And yet daily we practice tolerance toward untruth. Dismissal of historical fact, degradation of interpretive principle, plain concepts purposefully eroded, impudence toward empirical sciences; bare and slanderous celebration of ignorance itself—we call these things “politics” and change the subject. We are polite to a fault, and beyond. Each day the student, the dean, the professor make an intellectual choice...
...Your article on Opus Dei made plain the dangers of fanaticism and extremism within religious thought. God wants us to hate neither others nor ourselves. The cure for evil must come from God's transformation in us, not from flogging ourselves or vainly trying to impose our ways on others. Ken Broeckel Escondido, California...