Word: downright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly right for a party, and the trappings were all that anyone would wish: the sweep of Red Square, an entertainment cast of thousands, the backdrop of the Kremlin and, later, the elegant Palace of Congresses as a banquet hall for 2,000 guests. But the hosts seemed downright edgy, as if expecting one of the guests to swing from a chandelier or pour champagne on someone's head. Indeed, some of the partygoers at last week's celebration of the Soviet Union's 50th anniversary figuratively jangled a few chandeliers and threw a goodly amount...
...Public Broadcasting Act, while satisfactory in most respects, is ambiguous in others. A restrictive House amendment requires that public-TV programming be "objective and balanced." That catch phrase is scarcely helpful; taken to an extreme, it could be downright silly, Says Hartford Gunn, manager of Boston's WGBH, the nation's outstanding public-TV channel: "If we have a program saying pollution is bad, does this mean we have to do a program saying pollution is good...
...force and account for two-thirds of Finnish exports, are badly squeezed. Timber owners, mostly small farmers, are holding out for higher prices. Some mills closed down this year, others are working at insignificant margins or at a loss. "Against this background it would have been difficult if not downright impossible to tighten credit policy further," said Bank of Finland Governor Klaus Waris...
Reflections in a Golden Eye ends suddenly and violently. Its final image, an extended shot, is the one the audience carries away with it. But as a whole, the movie is unsatisfying. It is challenging and aggressive in theme, but fitfully welded together and occasionally downright dull...
...moist and dusty rank in the shadows past the open door. "Red bar'l, massah. Dat's de bar'l fo' a gentleman, massah." When the desire to play the obsequious coon came over him, Hark's voice became so plump and sweet that it was downright unctuous. "Marse Joe, he save dat bar'l for de fines' gentlemens...