Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight dancers and singers add to the show with straightforward and unpretentious performances. Although they carve out individual styles, the performers never subvert the joy of the music. The feeling of community conveyed by the band and cooperative performers reflects the original Motown environment in Detroit which vaulted so much young. Black talent to superstardom...
...abandon this pretense of amateurism. As a memo drafted by the American Council on Education--a Washington-based higher education group--observed. "A paramount advantage of this...option is that it confronts the hypocrisy of the present-system and puts big-time programs on an honest and straightforward basis." True enough, yet not only would such a professionalism never come around, but it also seems a bastardization of what we seek from our institutions of higher learning...
...give a lesson to the chickens." Said Merrill Panitt, editorial director of TV Guide: "Our feeling is that if we became a marketing tool for cable companies, it could compromise our editorial integrity." Replied Grunwald: "TV-CABLE WEEK will maintain complete editorial independence and provide straightforward, unbiased information...
...plot is straightforward boy-meets-girl and depends on such conventions as a villain in a top hat and rescuers in disguises (one does a drag impersonation of Queen Victoria). The stage is tiny and the choreography consequently minimal, yet in one serendipitous moment a painted cloth is lit from behind to become a foggy, gaslit, sweeping vista of a Sherlock Holmes-style England...
...criteria for determining what can be sold are straightforward. Lands in the National Park and National Wildlife Refuge systems are exempt from consideration. So are Indian Trust lands and Wilderness areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Trails, national conservation areas and certain other lands designated by Congress. This adds up to 400 million acres. Everything else can be put on the block. The surplus lands first will be assessed to determine their market value. Next they will be offered to other federal agencies, which may want to use them for different purposes. If there are no federal takers, the lands...