Word: downrightness
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...BETTER OFF DEAD? Clearly, the fear of natural disaster is taking its toll. An online survey by NetDoctor.co.uk found that 1 in 3 Brits was "downright miserable," while 1 in 4 feared a "hopeless future," which should not make it all too surprising that 1 in 10 said they'd be better off dead...
...week's fighting began to look truly out of control, everyone from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov rushed to toss in his 2[cents]. The diplomacy that followed was chaotic and--for the White House at least--downright frustrating. The heavy lifting of trying to bring the two sides together was handled by Annan, who spent a good part of the week dashing from meeting to meeting. But his job was complicated by a constant need to triangulate with other countries...
...that South-of-France experience). On top of studio payments, however, we had tape costs, mastering and duplication fees, graphic design, photography, art work, promotional expenses and those notorious, no-name boxes of pasta for cheap eating. Needless to say, we were slightly over budget. Unabashed negotiation and downright pleading helped make the project possible. Our graphic design firm, for example, accepted "one gig owed" as part of our payment. Nothing wrong with revisiting the old barter economy...
...course, most of all this debate was about preparation. After a debate in which he repeatedly got downright testy with the aggressive Gore - who returned to his pushy, interjecting Round 1 roots - Bush closed with genial closing remarks he was determined, come hell or high dudgeon, to give. (And who doesn't think his closing "good luck" to Gore wasn't planned?) Like his opponent, he trawled to his questioners for eye contact, hoping for that decisive, Clintonian, feel-your-pain moment...
...Ladies Man is the kind of movie I've come to describe as "stupid funny." The humor ranges from tongue-in-cheek (the V.S.A.'s musical numbers-which, by the way, are a riot) to downright crude (most of the jokes involving Leon's "wang" fall under this category), and some of the plot turns are painfully predictable. But you know what? Who cares? This movie was made purely for laughs. It tiptoes along that ultra-fine line between really bad and not-so-bad at all, and ultimately ends up on the side of the latter...