Word: forthright
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...four golden days and gaudy nights, she was the still point of a turning, kaleidoscopic world. Immovable, she gazed upon the revelry with her forthright, rather stern expression. While not exactly a wallflower at her own birthday party, she appeared slightly aloof, distant. What's the big fuss? she might have been thinking. The question is understandable: after 100 years there is little the old girl has not seen before. But as an immigrant herself, she is perhaps even more sensitive to the curious ways of her adopted country, silently indulgent of good old American exuberance, excess and, yes, glitz...
...together produced illuminating sparks. Says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson: "Even within the Administration, there is still not a clear idea of what SDI is supposed to do." Indeed, forthright statements from Perle and Nitze defined basic disagreements over Star Wars among the President's men. Says Talbott: "It was exciting to have the dispute played out before...
...TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief Sandra Burton, a close observer of Aquino's career since their first meeting more than two years ago, the President was in her office with her daughter and personal secretary nearby. Discussing her first twelve weeks in power, Aquino was as animated and forthright as ever. Excerpts from their talk...
...direct link between his early industrial landscapes of the '40s and a painting like Wotan, 1950, through the work of Kline's contemporaries--especially, in the '40s, De Kooning, whose influence on Kline was pervasive. A case can be made for Wotan as Kline's masterpiece; that extraordinarily forthright black rectangle, with a stub of the top "girder" sticking out to the right, is an image whose Wagnerian power fits its title. Majestic and a little slangy at the same time, it is one of the most commanding American paintings...
...opening factories, pressing thousands of hands, walking about dreary industrial towns--can be as tedious as they are arduous. The ITV interviewer, Sir Alastair Burnet, asked Diana whether she had anticipated that she would not even be able to walk down a street without kicking up a fuss. Her forthright answer: "No. I didn...