Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This week's symbols are particularly straightforward," says Holmes. "To illustrate complex subjects like these, the most obvious solutions are usually the best ones...
...Baker, that "if we go forward with a particular provision or another, it is the end of the Western world as we know it." In the political interest of producing a plan with a fighting chance of becoming law, the Administration introduced complicated softenings of provisions that originally were straightforward and harsh...
...over-Oxbridge intonations make Coward's dry witticisms positively and Coward's eternally fresh wit is enough to sustain interest, but one almost wishes a kid from Brooklyn would wander in for a change of pace. Something more in the way of contrast is needed; Lisa Peers, as the straightforward cockney maid, comes close to fitting the bill...
...Harvard softball team kept its record unblemished with a 4-3 victory over Wheaton yesterday afternoon, but it wasn't what you would call a straightforward...
...those who loved the character, Broderick's endearingly klutzy impersonation, Gene Saks' straightforward staging and the humanity of the author's reminiscence, Simon last week brought them back in the second Broadway installment of a planned autobiographical trilogy. Biloxi Blues sends Eugene to Mississippi for basic training in 1943. He faces authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation. He methodically loses his virginity with a prostitute (Randall Edwards), less for pleasure than as a rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature...