Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four playwrights, Sanchez-Scott is closest to the Latin American tradition of "magic realism," in which visionary or hallucinatory elements coexist with a gritty naturalism much as they do in the fiction of Borges and Garcia Marquez. In the play on which her reputation rests, Roosters, what seems a straightforward depiction of the life of farmhands gives way to mysterious visitations, symbolic cockfights enacted by dancers, virginal girls wearing wings, archetypal confrontations between father...
...addition to reliability, flexibility is also important, he says. In the past, the crew has had to provide sound for simultaneous translations of speeches and for dubbing of pre-recorded material, Clancy says, but "this year's ceremony is pretty straightforward...
...simple the first time around. Find a natural man and bring him to the big city where he can teach the slickers a thing or two about the continuing validity of the simple values like courage, modesty, an equable temperament and a straightforward definition of right and wrong. It was a little like watching Mr. Smith go to Washington or Mr. Deeds go to town. Except that Mick ("Crocodile") Dundee (Paul Hogan) not only spoke softly but also carried this enormous Australian bush knife, particularly useful in cutting through useless conversations...
...outcry against Hollywood or a cynical apologia from a man who, in real life, is finishing one Hollywood film and about to start another. Mamet has said that by being oblique, even obscure, he forces spectators to think. At least some playgoers, however, yearn for a writer straightforward enough to have the courage of his own convictions...
...reform was designed to make the system more straightforward by eliminating most shelters and reducing the number of tax brackets from 14 to five for the 1987 tax year. For many of the 107 million U.S. taxpayers, reform has been a blessing. At least 2 million low-income citizens are no longer required to file at all. Moreover, the creation of a standard deduction and the raising of thresholds for medical expenses and other write-offs means that about 25% of the estimated 40 million taxpayers who itemize will be better off if they use the short forms instead...