Word: downrightness
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Humane traps will be the preferred method of catching wildlife when necessary. It will ban the hunting of bears and bobcats with packs of dogs. Hounding is downright cruel and unnecessary. Hounding will end, but bear and bobcat hunting will continue...
...studies involving immature eggs, surely the most controversial--and, to some ethicists, downright repugnant--is the work on ovarian tissue. Researchers have been performing experiments aimed ultimately at transplanting such tissue from fetuses--either aborted or miscarried--into infertile women. Fetal tissue is a rich source of eggs. A five-month fetus has cells that can produce about 7 million eggs, in contrast to the mere 400,000 or so that survive to a woman's puberty. Researchers have suggested using this tissue to establish egg banks for infertile women, who could then give birth to children...
...this era of outrageous, genrebending, over-the-top films, it seems imposible that a mere "musical" first released in 1964 could shock our desensitized ninties selves. But the newly re-released "Umbrellas of Cherbourg," a sung-through, "faux technicolor" kitsch-binge, is downright obscene in its shameless, ecstatic campiness...
...portrays. Her dead-pan performance means that her Dawn is tough, not easily crushed by the blows she keeps facing. The resiliency of the developing spirit is thus a tacit message of the film. Bredan Sexton Jr brings out the tender helplessness of a character that could otherwise seem downright evil, while not overplaying the "sensitive" card. Both these young actors deserve praise for the delicate, sophisticated balance and naturalism they bring to their roles, especially when juxtaposed against a supporting cast of cartoon characters...
...come-on-down atmosphere seems downright phony to some critics--especially to the owners and devotees of older, established blues clubs that are competing with HOB franchises. "The House of Blues has taken a pretty big chunk of the blues market," laments Bill Benoit, entertainment manager at the Tam, a blues joint in Brookline, Massachusetts, near Cambridge. "They have the name, and they have the power to book bigger acts more regularly, but there's also sort of a prepackaged feel that goes with the club...