Word: downrightness
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...Baker and his Wife, Jack and Cinderella. This is artfully done and a good contrast to the wide open stage of the "forest" where the rest of the action takes place. The tree panels are on a fine line between abstract and unrecognizable; Rapunzel's tower is downright weird. The rotating rake in the center of the stage is put to good use in indicating scene changes and the director only once gives into the temptation of staging a "Les Miserables"-like turning sequence. Bovine Engineer Margaret Chou also deserves credit for creating a stupid looking yet loveable cow that...
...Forbes 500" instead of the Fortune 500. They used hokey, pseudojournalistic techniques: an interviewer in a pair of biographical ads set up the candidate with questions like "Ross, can you remember the first time that you spoke and people paid attention to what you said?" Often they were downright wacky. In his election-eve effort, Chicken Feathers, Deep Voodoo and the American Dream, Perot scoffed that most of the jobs created in Arkansas under Governor Clinton were in the poultry business. "If we decide to take this level of business-creating capability nationwide," he said, "we'll all be plucking...
From the merely eccentric to the downright bizarre seems to be only half a step for Ross Perot. The populist billionaire last week came up with a new explanation for why he had abandoned his initial presidential campaign on July 16: he wanted to save his daughter Carolyn from a smear. Seems he got wind from three sources -- two unnamed, one a frequent promoter of conspiracy theories -- of a Republican plot to portray his daughter as a lesbian by circulating a doctored photograph, then to "disrupt" her Aug. 23 wedding by means unspecified. By Oct. 1, with Carolyn married, Perot...
They probably have the right idea. When I was a first-year, Harvard made me downright giddy. And so I think a special "First Year's Edition" of a school song might be in order...
...carelessly used to embrace everything from supermarket tabloids to the respectable press to prime-time sitcoms -- gave Republicans much of their ammunition: the purported romance with Gennifer Flowers, controversies over his draft record and personal investments, allegations of favors to his mother and other allies. Indeed, there was something downright unseemly about the armies of reporters tripping over one another in Arkansas last spring, scrambling to dig up dirt on Clinton. But that was when polls had the Democrat third in a three-way race. As campaign reporters are quick to point out, the cheerier coverage and splashier play started...