Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, who performs three startingly different roles with dash, bravura, and intelligence, is largely responsible for bringing off "The Drowned Man," an amusing episode about a sailor who'll drown himself for 60 kopecks. Jacques Semmelman plays a decent, if uninspired, Chekhov (the narrator), but in this contest his straightforward warmth practically saves the show. There are fleeting good moments from Stewart Chrition and Barbara Bejoian in "The Seduction" episode; Chrition, especially, with his macho-male-deodorant-commercial voice, would have been very impressive had the pace of the scene been less lethargic. Marina Grossi is exuberant and lovely...
...work had a categorical, no-nonsense air to it. Davis was a man of marked intellectual energy, and all his transactions as an artist-with subject matter, sources, influences and his constantly explored ideas on the use of art in the real world-were unwobbling and straightforward. He wanted clear configurations, in theory as in art. His career was almost as long as modernism itself. As a 19-year-old tyro from Philadelphia, he exhibited in the Armory Show in 1913; and he outlived Jackson Pollock by eight years. His early model was cubism-though he did not visit Paris...
...this would be an easier show to handle than most. But Shaffer's intricate cat-and-mouse thriller requires visual flamboyance, as its two adversaries wind about each other, the tension mounting as the roles of cat and mouse are juggled and exchanged. Garry's blocking is too straightforward: get up, sit down, walk up the stairs, pace a little. There is a bit of original stage business involving some darts at the beginning of the play, but I honestly can't recall any after that...
...should get now what we were offered under the proposals which Dr. Kissinger brought here more than a year ago. We were given an undertaking that if we accepted that plan, there would be an immediate removal of sanctions and a cessation of terrorism. Dr. Kissinger was sufficiently straightforward to say to me that he believed they could guarantee an end to sanctions. The second point they could not promise, but nevertheless they would use their good offices. These were powerful factors. We've gone even further than we were asked to go. If it was right for the British...
...travel in the same circles, but Margaux told me to come along," said Mary Hemingway. So Ernest's widow, 69, and her stepgranddaughter the model, 23, turned up at a Valentine dance to help launch an "I Love New York" advertising campaign. "Margaux has always been a cheerful, straightforward girl, long before she got into that fashion business. Or whatever it is. I'm a quieter creature," says Miss Mary, who will start work next month on "two nearly full shopping bags" of unpublished Hemingway manuscripts. As for Margaux, she is getting ready to be a leading lady...