Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music doesn't help matters. Joel was in a motorcycle accident last year which injured his hand, thereby hampering his piano playing. But instead of cutting back to simplistic piano and equally straightforward musical accompaniment. Joel has souped up and cluttered his songs with synthesizer zanies and special effects. The tunes are about as endearing as the cold, distant stories told...
...they had had reservations from the outset about participating is a project that sought opinions from no more than seven Harvard undergraduates in compiling a 1000-word assessment of undergraduate life here. These doubts seem reasonable; like most other college and course review handbooks, the Black guide presents some straightforward statistics and a subjective viewpoint, nothing more. Why not just urge the ambitious young authors to take advantage of as many sources of information as possible and then try to publicize Harvard's working to overcome past indifference to race relations with new activism? That's what Dean Fox should...
...book, Breaking the TV Habit (Scribners; $9.95), Wilkins describes the telltale signs and dangers of television addiction and offers a straightforward four-week program to break the habit without severe withdrawal symptoms. Addiction may be a metaphor, but the reality, according to Wilkins, is that among American children, television ranks second only to sleeping as a consumer of hours. The average American, both child and adult, watches more than six hours of television daily. By the age of 14, a devoted viewer will have witnessed 11,000 TV murders, claims Wilkins, and will digest 350,000 commercials before graduating from...
...Cincinnati Enquirer, was covering the fatal plane crash of the University of Evansville (Indiana) basketball team. Surveying the tragic scene where all the players and their coach died, he found himself looking at his assignment a bit differently from most of the reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion that was unbroken amid the debris. "Everything seems to survive," he thought...
...began as a fairly straightforward corporate merger fight. But by last week the multiplying twists and turns in the convoluted takeover battle between Bendix Corp., the Michigan-based aerospace and auto-parts manufacturer, and Martin Marietta Corp., a leading defense contractor of Bethesda, Md., had become an embarrassing parody of Big Business in action. Seemingly unconcerned about the best interests of their stockholders or employees, some of America's top executives were threatening each other with multibillion-dollar stock ploys, while jetting cross-country for clandestine strategy sessions, tying up courtrooms from Michigan to Maryland and wasting millions...