Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closest replica. Chanel had long since refused to join the cabal of Paris designers who tried to prevent style piracy. "I am not an artist," she insisted. "I want my dresses to go out on the street." Out they went by the thousands, easy to copy, because of the straightforward design, and cheap to produce, because the fabric was standard. Even a copy of a Chanel could claim its cachet. Private customers paid $700 for the original; buyers, intent on knockoffs, paid close...
Samuel Beckett's message comes across clearly, but not through the exponential words of an essayist or even the straightforward narrative of a conventional playwright. And last weekend at Sanders Theatre, Earl Kim relayed it with music...
TeleSessions, an organization that began operations last month after a year of secret dry runs to work out the bugs, has a straightforward purpose: to bring strangers with similar interests together on a huge party line for information and fun (the group's) and profit (TeleSessions). To take part in "discussions you dial into," subscribers call TeleSessions' Manhattan number, specify their area of interest and are assigned to one of the groups. At the appointed hour (usually once a week), TeleSessions calls the subscriber to connect him with as few as ten or as many as two dozen...
...even to Angela Davis among others. Accused of aiding and abetting the kidnap-murder of Judge Harold Haley near San Francisco four months ago, she has already been charged with conspiracy and murder in the judge's death, and the prosecution is likely to stick with that relatively straightforward charge alone. But under the logic leading to the Taylor decision, it is at least conceivable that Angela Davis could also be charged with the murder of the three kidnapers, who drove their getaway truck toward a roadblock, provoking their own deaths in a hail of police bullets...
What Wells, Rich plans for its new account is uncertain, but Chairman Mary Wells Lawrence has repeatedly stressed the wisdom of a straightforward approach in times when the U.S. economy has a headache. The shift of the Alka-Seltzer account reinforces a hard truth: no matter how much an agency strives to lift its promotions above the humdrum, advertising remains an art for sales' sake...