Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until the Frey character meets another young woman (Nicole Jamet) and sets about turning the maison a trois into a maison a quatre. Needless to say he doesn't bother to explain the rules and arrangements to the new recruit, and much unhappiness results from this lack of forthright communication. Eventually, because this is supposed to be a comedy, things are set to order (the new girl stays), and everyone settles down to a mutual misunderstanding...
...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...