Word: downrightness
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...either the U.S. or Japan, Korean products often sell for 25% less than their competition's. By offering attractive items at very low prices, the South Koreans may become the new Japanese. Says one Tokyo businessman: "Sometimes we see our spitting image in the Koreans, and we're downright afraid...
...maybe the most important point is that it would just be downright unthinkable to have one of the most uncelebrated teams in America celebrate its presence in the most celebrated game in America...
...after two recent Club events, the hosting of the South African Consulate-General and of Dr. Paul Cameron, The Crimson can't seem to print enough about the Conservative Club, with most of the coverage bad if not downright offensive. In the case of Dr. Cameron, whom we invited to participate in what we hoped would be a debate with a member of the Gay and Lesbian Students' Association, The Crimson has distorted Cameron's remarks over and over, with the distortions getting worse each time. The truth is that Cameron advocated only a quarantine of victims of AIDS...
...script is banal. The acting, deadpan-dull. And the images clutter up like so many hip books on a crowded coffee table. With the possible exception of Gremlins, Joe Dante's unintentionally horrific testament to the decline of Western Civilization, Subway may be the most completely offensive, manipulative, and downright irritating picture in recent memory...
...Dead have been known to drift into long jams mid-song which are sometimes electrifying and sometimes downright boring. Such is the nature of a band which experiments with its sound every night: taking musical risks is part of the Grateful Dead's style...