Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...damsels dressed in their Sunday-best across an enormous knee-deep puddle. He carries one across and then returns for another, carries second across and then returns for the third, etc. Later, a small army of fox-hunters glide on horseback through an early morning mist. Across the foggy plain they ride, their red coats flapping behind them. Polanski takes his time with every scene, the effects ranging from mesmerizing to anesthetizing. The sumptuous photography of Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet rescues several scenes from fatal tedium, always enchanting the eye even when the mine has wandered. Their compositions...
...trademark. The birth of his daughter Savannah Jane in 1979 turned the man's thinking to the more pragmatic aspects of life. Though he still imbibes the greenies with regularity and enters races like Nantucket's Opera House Cup in his new sailboat also christened Savannah Jane), it is plain to see that marriage and a family--two of the heaviest anchors known to man--have caused even Jimmy Buffet to change his wild ways...
...Christ's return. Among other things, Armstrong denies the Trinity and insists that Christians should not celebrate Christmas or Easter (considered "pagan" holidays). He inspires fanatical loyalty among followers and fierce enmity among defectors, and deftly uses his radio-TV show, The World Tomorrow, and his monthly Plain Truth magazine to lure converts. Members contribute a tenth or more of their income, and with proceeds of $66 million a year the church has no trouble financing Armstrong's frequent tours to meet assorted world leaders...
...long and honorable existence there never has been imputed to this Club any charge of disorder. The fun is wholesome, the living is plain and the thinking as high as can reasonably be expected. --J.T. Wheelwright, Class...
...photographer, a small, quiet-mannered Japanese woman named Nana Watanabe. There are two or three other women in the studio from Danskin, a manufacturer known for leotards and tights, for whom Watanabe is shooting a couple of catalogues. And here comes another gofer of some kind, a plain-faced, skinny young woman in big tortoise-shell glasses, a grungy raincoat and sneakers. She plops down at the makeup table, opens a big handbag that turns out to be a makeup case and, as the onlooker tells himself that he is an idiot, briskly begins to turn herself into Clotilde...