Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laconic Carroll Cloar tells simple tales of life beneath a sky he sees as both acid blue and searingly hot. "Behind some grass," says he of a painting called The Ambush, "there's a girl. She's kind of a plain Jane. Well, she's waiting for the boy coming down the gravel road. And she's going to get him." Simple? Cloar's scenes-a traveler silhouetted starkly against the sky, three farmers talking hopefully of the spring, two men wandering down a ghostly moonlit road past a giant sign saying, JESUS SAVES-happen...
Close after the 15th anniversary of the fateful Yalta Conference, U.S.S.R. bureaucrats changed the name of Yalta's main thoroughfare from the just plain Russian word Bulvarnaya (i.e., Boulevard Street) to Roosevelt Boulevard...
...town he would always begin in the synagogue if there was one-using it as a springboard rather than as a place to convert many Jews. For the Christian doctrine that the Messiah had been executed as a criminal was, as Paul said, plain foolishness to Greeks but a special stumbling block to Jews. Paul inevitably did better among the Gentiles-until the almost inevitable blowup, usually organized by dissident Jews. Then his personal bravery was an evangelistic asset. In three successive towns in Galatia, for example, Paul and Barnabas were expelled with violence (in one Paul was nearly stoned...
...those who stood the gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...
Quiet Assassination. War's end found cigarette sales stronger than ever, but the dominance of the plain old regular-size cigarette was soon to end. First came the king-size cigarette. American's Pall Mall got there first, and did well. Reynolds decided to try a king with mild tobacco, brought out Cavalier. Cavalier flopped, still accounts for less than i% of the market, may eventually be dropped. Says Gray: "We goofed." The reason: top management thought it sniffed a shift to blandness in public taste in everything from music to food, brought out CavaHer to play to this trend...