Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many were middle managers who were forced off the corporate gravy train in the latest recession and said, 'Why live in New York or L.A.? I can have a modem and a fax and live anywhere I like.' The upscale golden eagles go to Jackson Hole or Vail, the plain mid-scale eagles to Buffalo, Wyoming, or Grand Junction, Colorado...
Back to the earth, back to nature: that sums up the appeal of Indian adornment, plain or fancy. Even the most sophisticated Navajo silver carvings radiate intense, earthy vitality. Small pieces called Rock Kritters -- mostly rings, pins and tie clips -- leap with life: jumping men, running animals, charging warriors. Among the cheapest items available, they are adapted from ancient pictographs found in the Southwest desert...
...feminist might argue that this proves the male is inherently less intuitive than the female. Or, more radically, that exploited womankind has better reason to be on guard than guys do. Woody Allen might argue that it is just plain funnier if supposedly ditsy Carol Lipton (Diane Keaton) insists there's something odd about the death of a neighbor while her husband Larry (Allen) patronizes her misgivings...
...starring on Broadway this season as the eldest of The Sisters Rosensweig, a role that brought her a sixth Tony nomination (she has won a Tony and an Emmy and been nominated for the Oscar four times). Tall and stately, with angular looks that let her play glamorous or plain, she specializes in emotionally austere drama but offstage is fun loving and approachable. She is living proof of the dividends that grants can pay. She vaulted into prominence playing the white girlfriend of black boxer Jack Johnson in The Great White Hope. It opened in 1967 in a Washington production...
...year friendship with the President has given Witt clout among Cabinet agencies with which his agency must coordinate $ emergency relief. But Witt has also won praise for his energetic efforts to reform and streamline the hapless agency. On his desk, he placed a warning, penned on a plain sheet of paper: WHEN ENTERING THIS ROOM, DO NOT SAY "WE'VE NEVER DONE IT THIS WAY BEFORE...