Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milwaukee, for example, she worked on a series of investigative reports examining "the in-justices and outright collusion of the city's power structure that were 'dumping' the mentally ill into run-down boarding homes." Sometimes social workers would send these people, barefoot in bathrobes, from nursing homes or mental health centers, because of some economic mandate from the state bureaucracy to lower health costs...
...level goes so high that the inevitable "someone" reference flips us back with a shock: what we're watching is not real, it's just another fantasy. Both singers reach their peak in the climactic title number, "Marry Me a Little," which explores fear of commitment and emands from outright belting to the subtlest possible tone modulations--tenderness, anger, and fear...
...lines away rather than directing them at the audience or another character. Robert Stattel as the Duke is the worst offender in this regard, often literally spitting out his lines; since the Duke has several long and emotional scenes, the results range from something resembling a temper tantrum to outright melodrama. A similar lack of control hampers the performances of Marianna Owen as Isabella and John Bellucci as Claudio...
...Israel volunteered to replace three crashed South African warplanes. In 1973, the head of South Africa's Bureau of State Security (BOSS) visited Israel (9) BOSS is known internationally for what can only be Gestapo-like practices of spying on citizens, torture, imprisonment without trial, and outright murder of South African Blacks. It is among the most feared and hated secret police forces in the world...
...journalists last week that troops of El Salvador's elite Atlacatl battalion herded at least 20 women and children into a house, then turned machine guns on them. In a separate incident near by, the soldiers reportedly fired on a group of more than 30 civilians, killing some outright and forcing others into a lake, where they drowned. Said a guerrilla boastfully: "This type of behavior reflects the agony of an army that can't defeat us on the battlefield...