Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Plaints and Visions. Consciousness I people, Reich observes, still persist and still see America as if it were a world of small towns and simple virtues. The membership includes "farmers, A.M.A.-type doctors, gangsters, Republicans and 'just plain folks,'" plus -one assumes-a Vice President or two. The folks in Consciousness II tend to be young doctors, idealistic lawyers, Kennedy men, believers in the New York Times editorial page, as well, presumably, as Ralph Nader and all his raiders. Unlike Consciousness I, Consciousness II people are aware of the erosion of the American Dream. But they are equally...
...that staphylo means "bunch of grapes," but since hardly anyone knows this, there is minimal danger that people will be misled into thinking an infection is caused by a bunch of grapes.) Many outsiders complain that scientists invent inaccessible jargons; but better a difficult language conveying precise meanings than "plain English" that misleads by using old names for new things...
Subpoenaed to testify in a murder trial. Writer Truman Capote played hard to get and got himself slapped with a $500 fine and a three-day jail sentence for what the judge called "plain old contempt." Capote wheeled up to do his time in a black Mercedes, a blue suit and shades. "I've been in 30 or 40 jails and prisons," boasted the author of In Cold Blood, "but this is the first time I'll ever be in one as a prisoner." Eighteen hours later he was sprung, after his doctor expressed "apprehension" about Truman...
...suspense is heightened through film sequences, sparingly used in the first act. When the players disappear behind the plain wood house-front which constitutes the set, the cameras switch on and show their pursuit continued over rocks and in wooded areas, all this in frenetic, black-and-white photography which evokes the 1920's. To suggest a chase within the house, the director achieves an even more perfect fusion of film and stage action. As the real Soldier and Gloria gape from one open window, the other window shutter springs open, on film, and we see the ominous Mrs. Schmidt...
...tiger by the tail it's plain...