Word: downrightness
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...that's nothing compared to the vicious hits I've seen players take going into the plexiglass of the scorer's booth or headfirst into the wall. And besides, I disovered that being dangerously close to the action was, well, downright exciting. You see and hear things that most student fans miss...
...second highlight of Hyman's tenure has been the assurance of popular elections of the president and vice-president next fall. We find the whole idea of intra-council executive elections downright incestuous. The campus is certainly able to select its own leaders. Council executives are the public servants of the students from whom the council itself derives authority and funding. The decentralization of control from the council to students is a step in the right direction--a democratic...
...cutting taxes and preserving "sound money." Everyone has heard about Forbes' flat tax. But what else does he stand for? Where Malcolm Forbes was famous for collecting Faberge eggs and toy soldiers, Steve Forbes' writings show him to be a collector of policy fetishes that range from mainstream to downright odd. The one constant is their angle of vision, which, as befits an heir, is decidedly a view from...
...astronomers who are looking for planets, meanwhile, are sounding downright cocky. Butler says that he and Marcy are "close, real close" to finishing the analysis of their remaining 60 stars and that they would not be surprised to find two or more additional planets popping out of the data--perhaps in a matter of weeks. The pair will soon be heading for the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, the world's largest, to continue the search with even more powerful equipment. Mayor and Queloz, meanwhile, are back at their telescope in Europe. At the same time, dozens of other groups, using...
...carved out their own niche with their first film, Delicatessen, the story of cannibalism, troglodytes, circus performers, and, of course, love. But, with The City of Lost Children, they push their own style to the current technological limits. Indulging in kooky comic-book shenanigans that makes Dick Tracy look downright lifeless, the madcap directors pulled out all the stops to create a modern-tale fairy tale on a par with Pinocchio. In fact, the frenetic energy created by the movie what Disney should have been trying to create for years instead of slapping out syrupy sing-along goo like Pocahontas...