Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, straightforward Stars and Stripes evidence is plentiful too. The armed forces are easily filling their recruitment quotas. The re-enlistment rate is 71%, the highest since World War II. The Army National Guard has met its authorized strength for the past three years. Applications for admission to the three service academies rose by 59% between 1980 and 1984. Old Glory is having a heyday too. The Art Flag Co. of Manhattan, a major national distributor, reports a sales increase of 30% this year. During the Olympics, a Los Angeles County inventor was awarded a patent for his electric flag...
Working with a committee of professors and administrators, the Law School's director of admissions leads a far-ranging quest for talent and diversity. The search couldn't be more straightforward, confined to four basic criteria, yet the qualities in demand are somehow indefinable. Geraghty's looking for the right stuff; she'll know it when she sees...
...Elsewhere, Texans have been known to agree to meet at "dark-30" or "half-past dawn." Dallas people meet according to the clock. Elsewhere in Texas, the beautiful are "pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon," and the plain are "ugly as homemade sin." Dallas prefers straightforward adjectives: gorgeous, beautiful, attractive, interesting looking...
...good woman?" suggests the formal, slightly archaic tone of a fairy tale. And phrases like "valley of the painted horse", and a character named "Rapture" come right out of the fantasy worlds created for and by children. Oh-Ok's lyrics may be simple, but they are certainly not straightforward. Rather, they prefer to make their songs fragmented and oblique, hiding meaning not beneath lucid narrative, but in seemingly nonsensical childish ramblings...
...song opens with the rhythm section of Saunders and drummer Fred Maher chugging lightly along--as if the engine of Reed's GPZ motorcycle were building up to high gear--finally leading into the expansive guitar and synthesizer work of Reed and Peter Wood. The lyrics begin as a straightforward statement of Reed's new aims in life, but then suddenly veer off to follow Reed and his GPZ to a roadside diner out in Pennsylvania, where he takes part in the everyday life of the country people, and, for once, truly becomes what he seeks--the existence...