Word: forthright
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...productions (King Lear, Marat/Sade) have been flat. Here he is hobbled by lapses in continuity, fake-looking studio sets and a multinational cast. The scenery, much of it shot in Afghanistan, is breathtaking, but the photography is routine. What is needed is some sort of theatricality-if not the forthright vulgarity of DeMille, then at least the romanticism of David Lean. With its incongruous mix of radical content and stodgy style, Remarkable Men is as doomed as an artistic collaboration between Werner Erhard and Lawrence Welk.-Frank Rich
...seems to promise drive and success and an end to the aimless drifting Carter pathetically describes. If the price for that is a man who may not be personally forthright and trustworthy, we are willing...
...nothing about other minorities or women. Yet legal experts agree that in practice Weber will help not only blacks but other racial minorities, like Hispanics. It is less clear that affirmative-action programs that favor women will benefit from Weber. In discrimination cases, courts have typically been much more forthright in upholding the claims of minorities than of women. Weber is not likely to be of much use to white ethnic groups; hiring preferences that favor them would be vulnerable to reverse-discrimination suits...
...intimacy of the time-rupturing jet planes. Yet, in spite of the heroic past, the U.S. has let its passenger rail travel system fizzle and sputter down into a national embarrassment, Today service is scant, schedules are unreliable and amenities are often sparse. The equipment includes, in the forthright phrase of Amtrak President Alan Boyd, "a lot of junk." The situation might be called ridiculous if only in light of the universal recognition of the passenger train as the most expedient mode of moving large numbers of people from city to city. In an energy-short era, the railroad, fully...
...continuing refusal to back U.N. sanctions against South Africa. Seen in this context, Harvard is faced with the choice of a policy of ambivalence on apartheid (opposing it in words while at the same time profiting from it)--which can only cause cynicism among Africans--or a forthright stand which could start to win back the good will of Africa's present and future leaders...