Word: downrightness
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PHILADELPHIA--It's bad enough having to go to Philadelphia, but when you have to make the six-hour jaunt by bus, only to lose a hockey game, well, it's downright mortifying...
...leader of the gogo, proud, successful New South, but last week Georgia's Governor George Busbee sounded downright shy about it. Speaking before 500 delegates to a White House Conference on balanced growth and development, Busbee uncharacteristically stressed what he did not like about the South: "We still have the greatest percentage of people living in poverty, with less than five years of schooling, living in substandard housing, lacking plumbing, and with more people per room than any other section of this country...
MONTY PYTHON'S BRAND of humor always seemed peculiarly suited to the ear, not the eye. The ridiculous inflections of the members' voices, the bizarre intellectual and literary allusions, the often crude, even downright scatological sounds captured on record--all these ingredients first sold me on Monty Python several years ago. Indeed, I credit the comedy troupe's Monty Python's Previous Record with having taught me the true, wrenched-gut meaning of a guffaw. The divine mission to convert friends to the joys of these whacked-out Britons soon followed this revelation; I had heard the true sound...
BRODEUR'S BOOK IS downright frightening. With a chilling absence of tone or bias, Brodeur shows that microwaves have occupied a place in American life since the beginning of the century, without commanding any kind of public awareness or concern about their effect on life or the environment...
...this gets him into excesses of rhetoric. Carter digs his own trapholes-the idealist devoted to human rights can be downright fulsome when meeting dictators. Why, asked Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., did Carter, in a situation that called for only ambiguous politeness, say that the Communist leaders of Poland and the autocratic Shah of Iran share the same ideals that...