Word: downrightness
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...cast pumped life into on Broadway have lost their juice. What went wrong? Is it that the intimate conversations, the teasings of Southern- gothic catastrophes, the colloquial bitchery ("She was known all over Copiah County as cheap Christmas trash"), the climactic conciliations -- all of which seemed fresh, if not downright impudent onstage -- play smug and stilted on the big screen? Or has something precious been lost? When does a faithful, almost literal adaptation turn into a genteel lynching of its source...
Others say that the chicken wings just aren't worth the money and say that in fact the food is, well, downright fowl. Elke Z. Baker '90 says, "They're not worth the trouble. You have to go through skin and bones to get the meat...
...then reporters, using words like "duplicity" and "deception," peppered the President with the most skeptical -- at times downright hostile -- questions he has had to face since taking office. His answers were at best unconvincing, at worst contradictory of what other Government officials had said, and sometimes self-contradictory. Some samples...
Casper the Friendly Ghost is an amiable, almost cherubic-looking cartoon character. But his creator, Harvey Publications, felt downright hostile when the company's executives saw the logo for Columbia Pictures' 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters. The logo featured a cartoon ghost behind the symbol for prohibition, a red circle with a bar across its center. Two years ago, Harvey filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The company claimed that the logo copied a Harvey cartoon character named Fatso, one of a trio of ghosts that taunt Casper...
...when you throw in the fact that Gompers, now a senior on the Harvard cross country team, was running in his first marathon ever, the time was downright astounding...