Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs in cars without license plates...
...Rozanova's Color Construction, Green on White, 1917, a vertical stripe down the middle of a field, is a Barnett Newman "zip" 30 years before Newman, and her exquisite collages in the suite entitled The Universal War, 1916, with their energetically dancing shapes of pure color on a plain ground, predict the chromatic intensity and drawing of Matisse's "Jazz" cutouts...
...FIRST DOG DAYS of this sultry new decade, two films of precious little artistic merit and perhaps less social value have burst on the scene to entice us into the cool, dark air of the neighborhood cinema. These are movies about jes' plain folk who might live around the corner or across the state, silly stories of ordinary people who want to be rich so that they can be happy, happy in the American...
...beautiful downtown Burbank to dredge up old films. Although Dino DeLaurentis reigns as the King Kong of this burgeoning market, almost everybody has tried his hand at it. The products range from ridiculous but harmless--Heaven Can Wait--to dramatic yet stupid--Invasion of the Body Snatchers--to just plain banal--The Blue Lagoon...
...caused gasps if they had been mentioned in private chats not long ago, or full-blown scandals if they had appeared in print. Today nobody bothers to lift an eyebrow at the seamiest intimate tale, not even when it is about the life of a President. The reason is plain: tidings of intimate goings-on have become as common as junk food in the U.S. In fact, the country has developed what looks like an enduring bull market in personal secrets...