Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really amused at the review of Private Benjamin by Richard Schickel [Nov. 24], who couldn't, it seems to me, give the movie any credit for being just plain entertainment. The film is simply an amusing way to face the fact that it is -has been, and always will be-"a man's world." Goldie Hawn was great...
...report, says SPS Pioneer Peter Glaser, "is a landmark study that should go a long way to dispel the apprehensions and just plain misunderstandings about solar power satellites...
...right of the great majority of America's political thinkers. For years National Review did not even have the stimulation of any worthy competition. Says Buckley: "There was absolutely no journal of opinion for us types to write for. Over here [on the right] it was just plain Dry Gulch...
...opponents of detente are trying to use the Afghanistan events to fan up international tension. The fact is, however, that the pressure on Afghanistan started immediately after the April revolution of 1978 and was directed from Pakistan. In plain words, it is with active American and Chinese participation that armed formations are brought into Afghan territory from Pakistan. American politicians have not concealed that they would like to see the Afghanistan situation turn this country, traditionally friendly to the Soviet Union, into a hostile outpost of imperialist forces on the southern border of the U.S.S.R...
...still dresses in the gray three-piece suits and plain white shirts he favored for official appearances, but his desk is no longer piled high with scrawl-covered yellow legal pads, news clips, letters, schedules and unanswered telephone messages. With little of substance left to do in his remaining days at the White House, Jody Powell is troubled by a vague sense of failure. Says he: "I don't feel at all satisfied with what I've done. To start with, we lost the election...