Word: downrightness
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...force and account for two-thirds of Finnish exports, are badly squeezed. Timber owners, mostly small farmers, are holding out for higher prices. Some mills closed down this year, others are working at insignificant margins or at a loss. "Against this background it would have been difficult if not downright impossible to tighten credit policy further," said Bank of Finland Governor Klaus Waris...
Reflections in a Golden Eye ends suddenly and violently. Its final image, an extended shot, is the one the audience carries away with it. But as a whole, the movie is unsatisfying. It is challenging and aggressive in theme, but fitfully welded together and occasionally downright dull...
...feuds have cooled too. Gone are the days, he says, when he dismissed Walter Winchell as "a cringing coward" and Hedda Hopper as "downright illiterate" for printing "garbage" about celebrities; during his frequent clashes over the pirating of talent, he put down Steve Allen and his manager as "two punks" and squelched Arthur Godfrey with the line, "By the way, what does he do now?" (He hosts a CBS Radio morning show.) During a contract dispute with Frank Sinatra some years ago, Sullivan took a full-page ad in Variety to lambaste the singer for "false and reckless charges"; Frankie...
...moist and dusty rank in the shadows past the open door. "Red bar'l, massah. Dat's de bar'l fo' a gentleman, massah." When the desire to play the obsequious coon came over him, Hark's voice became so plump and sweet that it was downright unctuous. "Marse Joe, he save dat bar'l for de fines' gentlemens...
...turns out that the evil big shots seem neither to have been born in Sicily nor to be afflicted with five o'clock shadow, but bear such names as Brewster, Carter and Fairfax. The biggest mobster of them all (Carroll O'Connor) is downright refined. Arriving at his hideout, he grumbles that the shrubbery needs watering and the swimming pool is too cold, then expresses horror at Marvin's demand for the missing dough. "We don't handle actual cash," he gasps. "I've only got about...