Word: forthright
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Bidette "pioneered" this kind of forthright advertisement, and never had any resistance...
...musical Hello, Sucker, Mar tha Raye plays Texas Guinan, famed speak-times E.D.T. easy hostess of the '20s, whose forthright greeting gives the show its name. Wilson Stone created the score for this pre-Broadway show, with story line by Larry Marks and Robert Ennis Touroff...
...discovery of the June graduates [June 13] that the world contains war, poverty, disease and hatred between races, and thus is not a fit receptacle for either them or Miss Mills' prospective babies. We are all much indebted to them for their shrewd observations and also for their forthright response to this situation -sulking, whining to their parents and destroying their universities...
FORD'S DRAMATIC vision is simultaneously forthright and elusive, and the interest of these introductory notes is only to mention two characteristics which permeate all his films. First, Ford is a master at the sudden juxtaposition of emotional quantities. Serious scenes will turn into comic ones, then revert suddenly to introspection. The greatness of this is that Ford carries the audience with him totally; we are rarely conscious of these shifts and instead experience them without question or intellectual judgment. In Donovan's Reef (1963)--a good film for examining this--the mood of each scene in the second half...
...those who cannot forget a face, there is something in the curly hair, the forthright blue eyes and the squared-off jaw to bring back nostalgic twinges. The name is familiar too. When Barry Morris Goldwater Jr., 30, showed off his proud mom and dad to jubilant California conservatives, it was Goldwater père's evocation of the 1964 right-wing crusade that stimulated the cheering section. "In your hearts," said Barry Sr., "you know we're right...