Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their pique with the allies. Snapped a White House aide: "We wound up just as mad at the allies as at Iran." Complained a senior European expert at the State Department: "The allies have been slow, aggravating beyond belief and sometimes plain infuriating." And a White House staffer noted that "I don't think that we'll let the Europeans forget this...
With Iran showing no sign of yielding up the hostages, Jimmy Carter made it plain last week that he was closer than ever to taking military action. At his press conference the President icily announced his latest "nonviolent but punitive steps" and warned: "If this additional set of sanctions and the concerted action of our allies is not successful, then the only next step available that I can see would be some sort of military action, which is the prerogative and the right of the U.S. under these circumstances." The steps will squeeze Iran, but only slightly. He ordered...
...little attention here, Billy); and, astonishingly, a beautiful rendition of Jimmy Webb's Mac Arthur Park, which Sinatra has built up simply by scaling down the psychedelic reveries (imagine him singing "Someone left the cake out in the rain") and letting a shimmering love song stand plain and perfect. The third record of the set is a Gordon Jenkins orchestral fantasia about things to come. It is entirely dispensable. For Frank Sinatra, the future...
...leaving a tangible record of his path on the landscape. He would gather together local materials such as stones, branches and brush, arranging them in circles or lines often reflecting the contour of the terrain. In "England" Long picked flowers out of a field, leaving a green X of plain grass. Long's groupings are all of a temporary nature--patterns in sand that wash away with the tide, clumps of desert grass that will be scattered by the wind. Long's two photographs of man-made structures are significant: Windmill Hill, home of "the first inhabitants of England...
...also assumed-and no one is hesitant about putting the assumption into direct speech-that she will make it her business to attract a man of suitable wealth and submit to marriage. "Marriage gives us respectability, my dear," explains her grandmother. Sybylla is considered to be plain, and she is given to understand that she had better not be choosy (Actress Judy Davis, the sly and lively redhead who is Sybylla, is, of course, very attractive...