Word: downrightness
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Though Couve is almost invariably frosty in public, his small coterie of friends claim that in private he is witty, charming and downright human. He lives a quiet private life with his wife Jacqueline in a Left Bank town house, manages to arrange his work schedule so that they have lunch at home three times a week. They have three married daughters and five grandchildren. He has a dachshund named Jason, plays golf most Sunday mornings (in the 80s), and likes the movies enough to queue up with the crowds along the Champs Elysees to see the latest detective flicks...
...probings and brain-candling, TV ads fail with reassuring regularity reassuring because it means that the masses are still beyond manipulation. Indeed, owing to what the researchers call "the fluid, ever-changing force of subcultures," the viewers are still downright unpredictable...
...they agreed to an hour-long televised debate, the nation looked forward to a spirited exchange of their divergent views. Anticlimactically, last week's spectacular, displacing the Hollywood Palace revue on the ABC network, was no showdown, and it wasn't even good show biz. It was downright dull. Nearly two-thirds of the way through the confrontation, Moderator Frank Reynolds declared plaintively: "Well, there don't seem to be very many differences between Lyou] on anything, really...
...late Paul Mantz. The auction, conducted by Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, was the first one of its kind, and it marked the coming of age of the helmet-and-goggles old-plane buffs, who readily admit that their mania for flying old crates amounts to "downright sickness." Explains Seattle Lawyer Richard Martinez: "It's a sort of nostalgia. You build yourself a replica of a triplane Fokker, and there you are, Baron von Richthofen...
Compared with the marches of yesteryear, the antiwar demonstrations that sizzled and, in most cases, fizzled from New York to San Francisco last week were downright duds. Only 400 marchers turned up under drizzly skies in Washington's Franklin Park, where their modest demeanor, punctuated with a scattering of McCarthy buttons, struck an odd contrast to the motley of the Pentagon marchers last October. Boston's 500 demonstrators scarcely disrupted the weekend traffic...