Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Mary Tyler Moore has come to Broadway, and it's a love match. Her kind of natural, straightforward appeal defies resistance. She has shown considerable temerity in taking over the role of a quadriplegic, first played by Tom Conti with virtuosic skill. The audacity of Moore's undertaking is redeemed by the high caliber of her performance...
...presents the antecedents, history and consequences of the Trojan War. His actors perform in and out of the chorus and move easily from one major role to another in the epic series. Barton, 51, has made the classic treasures of Western drama accessible to modern playgoers by using straightforward, idiomatic English and concentrating on the endlessly probing light of the Greek mind as the essence of our civilized heritage...
...persuading other stations in the three cities to pick up the series, but Herbert Schmertz, the firm's vice president for public affairs, was nonetheless outraged by the stations' actions. Adding to his anger was the earlier refusal of the three major networks to run a more straightforward, nonfabulous commercial. That spot maintained that Mobil's profits are actually lower, in terms of return on invested capital, than those of the networks. The networks' response was much the same as that of the Post-Newsweek stations, but a spokesman for NBC could not resist noting that...