Word: downrightness
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such as TSHOMBE, THOU ART A DOWNRIGHT RASCAL, BEST YANKEE IS A DEAD YANKEE, GO HOME TO BLOODY AMERICA, PEACE CORPS SPIES, AMERICA UNDER JOHNSON IS WORSE THAN GERMANY...
...postures (feet planted firmly on the floor before the mirror, back hunched, one palm cupped below the eye, the other fanned out beside it) that might seem the essence of grace in a Kabuki dancer but stir less enthusiasm when performed in a crowded ladies' room, look downright insane in a restaurant. Worse still are the moments when removal is imperative due to a flying cinder or a sudden slip of a lens, or almost impossible (on a street corner, in a snowstorm); shrewd lensmen wear sunglasses on all outdoor excursions, preferring to be thought phony rather than weepy...
...deeply involved in the Congo either. Yet these words from Richard Russell marked a strange new mood about foreign policy-far from general, but significant. Only a short time ago the most enlightened men in both parties made it a cardinal principle that the U.S. must assume, if not downright seek out, global responsibility for freedom. Now many of those same men are beginning to say that the U.S. is badly overextended, that it is not strong enough to assume responsibility all over the globe, and that it is time to pull back in Viet Nam and elsewhere...
...songs are by Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, who blithely dissolves ideological conflicts in a burst of tuneful Slavic borsch. Occasionally the Magicolor screen becomes a hotbed of artistic freethinking, dissolving into sets that look very MGMsky, if not downright cubistic. The costumes are a Sears, Roebuck fashion show...
...ring," he mutters as he looks her over. When the mourners go home, she skips off to her bedroom, rips off her clothes, flips on a station that plays jazz jazz jazz. Her mother protests: "Hardly decent, is it?" Hardly. Many moviegoers, in fact, will find this picture downright scandalous. But Director Jorn Donner is not prurient; he is Priapic. He does not play the facts of life for sniggers; he displays them, like some pipsqueak Plautus, for grand though gross guffaws...