Word: downrightness
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These moments stick out only because the film normally progresses so smoothly. On that score the actors and crew deserve congratulation. But their streamlined performance highlights a script that is smooth going on downright flat...
Compromises are, in general, good things. But American history is dotted with attempts at conciliation that, for one reason or another, are short-sighted or downright silly. The Missouri Compromise. The Compromise of 1850. The "three-fifths" compromise...
...however, Wall Street in the '90s has lived up to the decade's reputation for grownup -- some call it downright uninspired -- behavior. Most '90s deals have been friendly strategic mergers in which the buyers use stock instead of debt and the partners exchange handshakes instead of lawsuits. Typical was last week's $4 billion agreement for financial conglomerate Primerica to acquire the 73% that it does not already own of Travelers, the insurance company. So too were AT&T's $12.6 billion deal for McCaw Cellular in August and the $6 billion merger agreement between drug firms Merck and Medco...
...Hurricane Emily inched toward land, several hotlines were set up for anxious residents to phone in their concerns. The lines were flooded with callers who felt helpless, depressed and, above all, downright scared...
...night to remember last May at the Italian restaurant Bice in downtown Tokyo. The room was agog because among the diners were two middle-aged men, one burly, the other downright fat. They sat around jawing about sports -- soccer, tennis, Formula 1 auto racing. At one point they turned to chat about fashion with a neighboring party of awed Italians. The cause of the stir was that the two amiable gents were the world's most famous opera singers and among the richest and best-known entertainers in any field: Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti...