Word: downrightness
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...course, if you have heard their stuff, seeing them live can be downright illuminating, for more than most bands the Gang defines itself in concert. The sheer responsibility of leading that flock of faithful followers dancing wildly before them evokes the best of the Gang. The brutal drive of King and Gill--suffused by the stylish yet restrained nature of a record-comes to life, egged on by the demanding presence of the audience...
...embody her standards. They may be hoofers or acrobats or even movie actors. About the very best- George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov- she can write truly rhapsodic prose, an act of daring in itself. About the pretentious, the emptily theatrical or the slipshod, she can be funny or downright outraged...
...lightly. In a party often criticized for lacking fresh ideas, the high-tech Democrats are at least offering alternatives; they are not simply attacking Reagan or sitting back and hoping that the troubled economy wins them votes. Some of their proposals may be too provocative, too risky or downright unworkable. But the time is right for creativity. Concedes Mondale: "The people don't like what Reagan has done to this country, but they don't want to go back either. They want a third alternative...
...reaffirmed the Stones' ability to provide the best material in the field even in their dotage. The album is so cleanly recorded and finely re-mixed that pieces like "Under My Thumb" and "Let's Spend the Night Together" lose some of their bite, particularly the latter, which sounds downright cheerful. Though the Stones have mastered the art of making studio productions sound spontaneous, they have never succeeded consistently in producing top-notch concert records. Only Get Year Ya Ya's Out (1970) comes close to preserving the on-stage hysteria and thumping power of a concert engineered by Jagger...
...body with respect, because it encases our immortal soul or, if for no other reason than that it better serves our intellectual requirements if kept in in good repair should be common sense to an intelligent person. Yet I observed too many young people at Harvard who looked downright slovenly...