Word: downrightness
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...Narrator. He gets the best of Saint Exupery's prose, and with fine modulation and good phrasing, he renders it well. Virginia Feingold as the Little Prince is the only real disappointment in the cast; she chooses to play him as an inquisitive little child, and comes across as downright irritating. The Little Prince is small and perhaps young, but he is not a child. He does ask questions, but he is not obnoxious about...
...first example of commercial TV regularly criticizing TV on the air.* CBS executives in New York City were understandably reluctant to approve the plan, which went into effect on KNXT'S 6 o'clock news two weeks ago. The Los Angeles outlets of NBC and ABC were downright hostile when Sheehan asked them for film clips to illustrate his reviews. "They felt that I would automatically praise CBS shows and pan theirs," he says. ABC went so far as to demand a signed affidavit that the reviews would be favorable. NBC simply said...
...that. In his youth, Yokoi was apparently made to feel inferior. Out of iji (spite), he decided to prove himself superior to everyone else in at least one thing: the capacity to suffer. "I had an extra-tough childhood," Yokoi explains. "So many people were harsh, cruel or downright brutal to me. By sticking to the jungle, I actually sought to vent my spite on all these people by remote control; I had to become somebody who could look down on these fellows to even the old score. And I think I have...
...vigorous-exercise defense against temptation. Or the masturbation-won't-harm -you -but-it-causes-worry gambit. The eighth edition merely suggests that sex questions be asked of qualified adults. That is probably the wisest course. It represents a break with the tradition of partial enlightenment or downright misinformation, going back to the 1911 first edition, with its terrifying and confused theory of conserving vital fluids...
...tiptoeing around in lavishly patterned, attention-getting shoes that have three-quarter-inch platform soles and heels as much as five inches tall. They resemble the wedgies worn by the screaming queen of a King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, and to conservative eyes they seem grotesque, if not downright decadent...