Word: candidness
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...OMPILED BY STUDENTS, for students, the faculty-funded CUE Guide meets an important demand. By providing well-researched, candid critiques and statistical data, it helps undergraduates choose courses...
...senior admissions officer yesterday offered 300 parents some candid insights into the Harvard admissions process, saying that interviews and standardized tests generally carry less weight than high school performance in admissions decisions...
...what kinds of securities the club is investing in, Davis is very candid: "We're investing 50 percent of our portfolio in growth stocks, 25 percent in dividend stocks, and 25 percent in speculative stocks." At the end of the year, any member who wishes can receive his percentage of the club's profits...
...umbrella hat. The most poignant sequence is a reminiscence by a woman who is selling her home and its contents after the breakup of her marriage to what seemed to be a sensitive, feminist man. The piece is at once an unabashed defense of human-potential movements and a candid acceptance of their limits. Even the less ambitious, more conventional sketches contain lines to cherish. Perhaps the signature for the evening is an observation that in a time of national obsession with health, "I worry that we don't have a metaphysical-fitness program." For that lack, Tomlin's show...
...candid shots of life on the range aren't pretty. While postcard-stills of the sleeping town before sunrise frequently interrupt the screen, the camera focuses for the most part on relentlessly exposing the routine exhaustion of life in the pits: from the hard day's labor in the mines to the hardluck boozers in the C & W saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches...