Word: straightforwardly
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...their best when they're not taking themselves too seriously, and that shows up whether turning punk conventions on their ear or incorporating eccentric sensibilities into their music. However, if you don't fully listen to the lyrics, you'll miss the point. "I Want You Bad," which appears straightforward, isn't a love song, but a driving anthem mocking sexual predilections, as Holland hollers over hyped up guitars ("I want you/All tattooed/I want you bad/Complete me/Mistreat me/I want you bad"). Similarly easy to miss in "One Fine Day" is the derisive parody of the hard-drinking, hard-living lifestyle...
...product; he's like a UPN show trying to capture 5% of the audience. Whereas for the Big Two, clever is dangerous. You can inadvertently alienate important sectors of the electorate (for instance, the stupid) or come off as slick and dishonest. Since Watergate, ads have been much more straightforward--and artless. When the media landscape is carpet-bombed with ugly, blaring ads, perhaps every ad, regardless of its content, becomes a negative...
...interview from going further, leaving his answer as a denial. Hughes has disputed Slater's account, saying Bush insists he didn't answer no to the first question; by leaving Slater with the "impression" that there might have been another arrest in his life, she suggested, Bush was being straightforward. Slater didn't write about this exchange, but he described it to another writer, who included it in a profile of Hughes that appeared in the New Republic in November...
...technology that does this is called adaptive optics, and it was originally developed in secrecy by the Department of Defense to help military snoops take sharp pictures of Soviet spy satellites. Largely declassified in the 1980s, it's now being adapted for major telescopes everywhere. The idea is straightforward: stars and galaxies twinkle and shimmer because turbulent pockets of air act as weak, light-distorting lenses (heat rising from a car's hood or an asphalt parking lot causes a similar effect). With adaptive optics, though, a computer can measure the shimmer and cancel it out (see diagram...
Vinik's style is known as GARP--growth at a reasonable price, a fairly straightforward approach. In simple terms it means buying companies whose price-earnings multiple is lower than the earnings growth rate. Think P/Es of 10 to 14; earnings growth of 16% to 18%. There are hundreds of stocks fitting that description most of the time. Vinik scored big by loading up early this year on drug, medical and restaurant stocks while the masses crowded into dotcoms. He says sticking to his style kept him out of the bubble, "a huge factor in our performance...