Word: downrightness
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...Senator TOM HARKIN of Iowa has a get-tough campaign strategy: "Always attack, never defend and never fight on their territory." Once Bush launches an unfair offensive, "I'm going to hit him right back between the eyes," snarls Harkin. Tennessee Senator AL GORE mixes lofty rhetoric with a downright bloodthirsty warning to George Bush. "You run with your heart and soul," he notes. But you also have to be willing to "rip the lungs out" of a hardball-playing adversary...
...product labels. Fully 40% of consumers claim they are highly skeptical of what they read on the packages in their grocery carts. And medical experts see a distinct danger in the muddled messages. "For someone with chronic heart disease, hypertension or diabetes, the current manufacturers' labels can be downright dangerous," says Gail Levey, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. People with high blood pressure, for example, should be wary of falling for Stouffer's Lean Cuisine, which proudly boasts "Never more than a gram of sodium" in its print advertisements. While the claim is true, the implication -- that this...
...first movie I've ever seen which told the downright truth," says Mary Lucey, a lesbian activist in Los Angeles...
VIOLENT FEMMES: WHY DO BIRDS SING? (Slash/Reprise). Ornery, typically strange and downright swell. When these three tie into a song like Life Is a Scream, they make the inside of your head sing like Janet Leigh in her Psycho shower...
...months has Alan Greenspan been so downright bullish about the U.S. economy. Speaking last week in Osaka, Japan, the normally dour Federal Reserve chairman said he saw "clearly encouraging" signs that the recession is ending and mounting evidence of a "stronger-than-expected recovery." But back at home, hardly anyone else felt it. Wary Americans seemed a long way from embarking on a spending spree. "I used to go into a store and say, 'I want that,' and not even ask how much it cost," says Liane Adduci, an ad- agency executive in Chicago. "Now I'm much more conservative...