Word: downrightness
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...foreigner raped her in a parking lot of a shopping mall not far from the Kadena base. Police later said they had identified a U.S. Air Force technical sergeant as a suspect. The details of the alleged crime were sketchy, and unsubstantiated media reports were confusing, contradictory and downright inflammatory. First the incident was reported as a gang rape. Then there were reports that several Americans stood by while the rape occurred. None of that was true. But police questioned several airmen over the weekend. No charges had been filed by late Saturday, and the technical sergeant was not being...
...Offering an industrial-strength dose of Southern's own special brand of high weirdness, "Now Dig This" contains some of the most profound, and downright silliest, things the man ever came up with. It is, in short, the "next book" Southern fans have been waiting for all these years...
...Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern's style (the gaudy trailer included on the DVD edition of the movie has the ironic tag line "Is Candy faithful? Only to the book"). Though the middle section is downright dull - that's what fast-forward buttons and chapter stops were designed for - the finale is the sort of thing that could've only been dreamt up in the 1960s: the storyline has been neatly tied up, but the movie carries on, as our heroine strolls through a field, encountering...
...Taiwan's funeral strippers get rave reviews. But Taiwanese complain that most of the services offered by the island's morticians are downright shoddy. The average price for a memorial service is $12,000, compared with...
Viewed in the larger context of pop culture, the no-crossover argument seems downright archaic. We've gone from the Freddie Prinze era to the Freddie Prinze Jr. era. This year's movie action comedy Spy Kids took the No. 1 spot at the box office with a story about a family of spies who just happened to be Hispanic, but you would have had a hard time pitching the idea as a TV series. Young whites had no problem embracing Popstars, the WB reality show about a girl group, three of whose five members were Hispanic...