Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he was attracted by the human drama in Beth Gutcheon's adaptation of her novel Still Missing, based loosely on the real-life disappearance of Etan Patz. He added that he felt capable of directing this screenplay without worrying about his lack of acting experience because it was straightforward and unpretentious: A middle-class couple, very successful woman and her estranged husband are unexpectedly victimized by their son's disappearance. Instead of making a detective flick in which the main plot focused on the police investigation, and every clue fit into the larger mystery. Jaffe shows a series...
Film ought to be a lively medium for opera. The cinema can broaden a production's scope while narrowing its focus, providing the viewer with a fresh, if necessarily arbitrary, perspective that can simultaneously combine straightforward storytelling with implicit commentary. Watching a filmed opera should be like attending a performance with an omniscient, highly opinionated...
Despite a political career that spans nearly two decades. Ronald Reagan's decision-making process remains elusive, almost most mysterious. As Senior Correspondent John Stacks says of the subject of this week's cover, "Reagan appears simple and straightforward, but he is actually complicated. All of us want to know about how he works and thinks, what kinds of advice he accepts and rejects, how he adapts to challenges and change." Stacks first interviewed Reagan in 1967, not long after the former movie star had won the first of his two terms as Governor of California. Fifteen years later, Stacks...
...point was a straightforward one. The shift in emphasis created by quoting me in an altered context nearly reversed my meaning such slanted presentation has characterized. The Crimson's handing of the story throughout. I would seriously doubt whether the Harvard community has had an accurate view of the controversy. Margaret S. McKenna...
...more straightforward level, the mainstream media enjoy uncomfortably close links to the military establishment. Leslie Gelb became to the New York Times national security correspondent after serving in the Pentagon during the Johnson Administration, he left the paper to occupy a high national security position for President Carter and was replaced by reporter Richard Burt, who now serves as Director of Political Military Affairs in the Reagan State Department...