Word: downrightness
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When it comes to confrontations with Big Business, Washington is scarcely shy. Yet last week, marshaling a full-time staff of 20 to do battle against the U.S.'s biggest utility, the Federal Communications Commission sounded downright diffident-and with good reason...
...Actress Elke Sommer. But Elke sighed that the whole thing left her a little cold. "I'm very happy that I'm keeping up their morale," said she, but posing for that kind of stuff "makes you feel so silly." Well then, didn't she feel downright ridiculous about that nudie layout in Playboy last year when they showed her doing a striptease? Oh, that. "They kept asking me to pose, and the answer was always no. They went ahead anyway, using scenes from pictures I had made in Europe five years before. What makes...
...joke by the percussion utensils. The Dream of a Witches' Sabbath flaunted its own goodies, notably the raucous way the clarinets, flutes, and bassoons treat the witches' dance tune (a perversion of the Beloved's theme). The brasses' evil parody of the dies Irae plainchant seemed to have more downright nastiness to it than ever before...
...more objective and less like a Communist morality play. If anything, Salvo is likely to accelerate that trend. At least it provoked Red Star, the army newspaper, to demand still greater realism in depicting Soviet historical figures. Salvo, complained the paper, portrayed Trotsky as "a midget, whose actions were downright silly. Yet how could such a midget mislead the people?" Obviously, declared Red Star's own hatchetman, "he was an experienced and powerful demagogue"-and should be shown as such. It was also time for the truth about Stalin, who in the film has nothing to say and "just...
...constitution for independence, countered smartly with a plan for a "joint" commission (three Rhodesians and two Britons) to decide only if the principles of the 1961 Constitution, with some adjustments, could be adapted to become the basis of Rhodesian independence. To Wilson, it was as unexpected as it was downright "ingenious." It meant that Wilson and Smith could continue talking without either side backing down on principle...