Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people: the restless, the desperate, the shifty-eyed, the rowdy, the stupid, the tough, the stubborn, the stoned and the drunk. He listens to the beery yarns, life histories, and why-we-came-to-Alaska expoundings of a motley assortment of fast dealers, Dangerous Dan McGrews, crazed clergymen, plain folks, hippies keeping warm and dry and happy snorting cocaine, bartenders, flinty newspaper editors, pipeline workers, various well-and-not-so-well-intentioned politicians, naturalists and whores. All of them seem to lean close and talk confidentially to McGinnis the outsider...
...network maps showed solid Reagan blue from the Mississippi River west, as the former California governor rolled up margins even larger than Ford's across the plain states and into the Pacific Coast...
According to the rules of the game, the man who fails to vote has no justification for complaining about the result. The conclusion is plain. If one wishes to criticize the government during the next four years (and who would give up that priceless privilege?) voting is the prerequisite. But with the choice one of a sphinx, a knee-breached diplomat, or a great wind there is none who will not be eager to choose...
...about the preelection economy, the President declared that "the severe recession that we anticipated has not been nearly so severe as we thought." In fact, the Administration had purposefully tipped the economy into recession in order to curb the runaway rise in prices. Yet, as the September figures made plain, the tactic has failed...
MOVIES IN AMERICA were once just cheap popular amusement--you'd put in a penny, turn the crank, and get your kicks. People soon discovered that movies could amount to a great deal more than just entertainment, but there has always been a plain, visceral fascination in the play of image and color on acetate in a dark room...