Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Andrew Lloyd Webber) and sitcoms (The Fainthearted Feminist with Lynn Redgrave). The schedule is also filled with concerts, operas, ballets and other fine-arts fare. But the network's executives admit that they are trying to attract new viewers with shows of broader appeal. "We have a very straightforward mission," says A&E President Nickolas Davatzes, "to provide what we think is quality and thought-provoking entertainment...
...Snow Ball, like the best of Gurney's plays, is full of virtuosities. It is deft, insightful and winsome. The author's persistent tic is an unwillingness, perhaps an inability, to tell a straightforward story. No more than a few pages at a time of The Snow Ball unfold in chronological sequence. Instead, there are flashbacks, flashes forward, and crosscuts from one life story to another. Gurney is a master at this counterpoint. But he provides no crescendo, no epiphany. Despite many charms, The Snow Ball melts into fond but vague memory...
...problem the novel presents to an adapter lies in a "trick" (Forster's own word) of design, a conscious separation of the meaning of the tale from its main narrative line. That narrative, richly peopled with types Forster encountered on two long trips to India, is quite straightforward. Psychologically, the point on which it is poised is the suppressed emotional tipsiness of Adela Quested. As played in the movie by Australian Actress Judy Davis, Adela is dull at first glance but with a wild surmise glowing in her eyes, her gestures half formed, alternately acknowledging and denying the curious...
...series' domain is the subcontinental divide that separates those worlds. The action begins with an awkward mating dance between a shy English expatriate, Daphne Manners (Susan Wooldridge), and a tall, dark, handsome Indian, Hari Kumar (Art Malik). Straightforward enough, so it seems. But "in India," as one character points out, "nothing is self-evident." The exceedingly British Manners lives with an Indian lady she calls Auntie, and longs to make herself at home in India; the Indian-seeming Kumar has just emerged from a previous incarnation at an exclusive English boarding school, and finds himself an alien...
...Relations Committee, and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, head of a subcommittee on Africa, sent a letter to Reagan urging him to speak out more forcefully against apartheid. They complained that the State Department had failed to attack "the evils of apartheid and the violations of human rights in a straightforward, understandable manner." In addition, 35 conservative Congressmen, including such New Right Turks as Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich, invited South African Ambassador Bernardus Fourie to Capitol Hill and gave him a letter threatening to support economic sanctions against South Africa unless there is "a demonstrated sense of urgency about ending apartheid...