Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, the play's message is straightforward. The protagonist, a man named Fifty (indicating his lifespan), is rebelling against a his society, a futuristic world in which people's lives are based on their anticipation of death. Each character learns at birth how long he will have to live, but is forbidden from revealing his moment of death to anyone else. Everyone's age is public knowledge, but only an individual knows when his "moment" will occur...
...while the government insists that it had a solid and straightforward legal case against Moon, it has been unable to dissuade religious leaders and civil libertarians from their belief that the conviction is symptomatic of a broader governmental attack on religious autonomy...
...music will be different this year because of the kids. We want it to be open and accessible, with a straightforward beat that will be fun for the kids to dance to," Yamada added...
Difficult Loves may further confound the unwary. All of its 28 stories date from the 1940s and '50s. Their language (some pieces have been translated by William Weaver, the rest by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright) is straightforward, with nary a hint of narrative nudging. A few seem little more than sketches; in A Ship Loaded with Crabs, for instance, a group of young boys explores a half-sunken hulk, repulses a boarding by a rival gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light...
...AMERICAN ELECTORAL process has always had a smelly side to it, but in the past, once the deals were cut and the alliances made, hypocrisy was kept as straightforward as possible: an endorsement, no matter how distasteful the spirit in which it was made, simply indicated the support of some key constituency...