Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very forthright, strong-tempered and English," says Lee Remick about Kay Summersby, World War II chauffeur for Eisenhower. Remick, 42, will play Summersby in Ike, ABC's upcoming six-hour movie. To research the film, ABC relied on, among other sources, Summersby's posthumous memoirs, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. "She admittedly fell absolutely in love with him. That part is dealt with in the movie, but mostly through implication," says Remick. As for Ike's feelings about Kay, word is that the movie may well conclude that discretion is the better part...
Explaining that his comments were intended to "raise some questions likely to arise in this area in the future," the Chief Justice gave an unusually forthright exposition of his philosophy of the First Amendment. The press, Burger declared, has no greater right to free speech than anyone else. Though the First Amendment prohibits Congress from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press," he continued, the words "freedom of the press" add nothing fundamental to the words "freedom of speech." Burger found no evidence that the framers of the Constitution intended "special" or "institutional" safeguards for the press...
Associate Editor Paul Gray, who wrote the cover story from Hillenbrand's reports and those of Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov, was also impressed by Kirkland's candor and forthright approach when they met for an interview in her teacher's studio. A recent convert to the world of dance, Gray confessed he had indulged in a few Walter Mitty fantasies of joining her onstage. With that, she reached down and pulled off his left shoe. "Good extension," she judged as she tugged at Gray's foot while the nonplused writer tried to stretch...
...diFruscia's "Prisma" and Elizabeth S.-Wilkerson's "When the Street Lights Come On," accenting the uneven choreography of the company. In "Prisma," large wooden angles and U-shapes hung at the back of the stage, suggesting the organizing principle of the choreography. At its best, the dance was forthright and geometric, firmly asserted on the ground and in space as a series of poses blocked and held. Too much of its tedious time-span, however, was cluttered with extraneous movement: what should have been an architecture of simplicity was badly in need of discipline and toning. The problem with...
Throughout the '60s, Stella's paintings had been very forthright. Indeed, the clarity of his decisions was the main reason for his reputation as a prodigy. The patterns were absolutely explicit; they straddled the surface like theorems...