Word: downrightness
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...small poured in from the sidelines, heartened by a plunge in oil prices. Said Donald Clark, chairman of Household International, a finance and insurance firm: "I'm more optimistic today simply because we have put the uncertainties of the terrible situation behind us. In fact, I'm downright elated...
...Iran that began a bloody and futile eight-year war. Even friendly Arab diplomats find him distressingly provincial. He has rarely been outside the Arab world and knows as little of the West and its thought processes as Western politicians know of his. Courses that seem senseless or downright suicidal to analysts in Washington, Paris or even Cairo do not necessarily look that way to the boss of Baghdad...
...long-standing curiosity and skepticism. Would it really sound as good as a CD? DAT was demonstrably fine in the recording studio, where it has been used since 1987. But would it measure up to the CD for consumer allure? Would it be as handy, as user friendly, as downright cool? Would it be an all-around commercial monster...
...pendulum has swung. In some quarters nowadays, the name of the man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 is a downright dirty word. Russell Means, the Native American activist, says the explorer "makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent." In a new revisionist biography, The Conquest of Paradise (Knopf; $24.95), author and environmentalist Kirkpatrick Sale portrays Cristobal Colon (to name Columbus correctly) as a grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor and an incompetent governor of Spain's New World colonies, whose legacy to the Indians he "discovered" was rapine, servitude and death...
...Connecticut urged retailers to recall a cheap knock- off of the toy last month after the imitation's sharp edges cut a four- year-old girl. The real Slap Wrap, which carries its name on the bracelet, was excluded from the warning. This snappy fad is making some kids downright slaphappy...