Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone who's seen the movie, the answer is as plain as the blowhole on the killer whale's head. The lovable celluloid cetacean has been wrenched away from his orca family, which lingers loyally within squealing distance just offshore, and his unscrupulous owner wants to kill the prisoner for his life insurance. Even Captain Ahab would vote to let Willy out of his watery cell...
...Stone are not the heart of the stage crew. Co-director Emily Gardiner, playing three different completely different roles, quickly finds her way to the forefront of every scene. Gardiner apparently has no difficulty switching between completely different characters. Her change from a twisted Mary Poppins to a plain mother with mannerisms she seems to have stolen directly from a suburb is extremely impressive...
...integrity. A member of the liberal National Lawyers' Guild, he spoke of his concern for Ginsburg's "preference for measured or incremental movement of the law" and her "concept of gradualism in applying the Constitution's provisions." While casting Ginsburg's nomination in a positive light overall, Metzenbaum made plain his wariness of a Justice apt to compromise with conservative bench-warmers like Antonin Scalia, Thomas, and William Rehnquist...
...distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze of wintry light is actually a reflection in the mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition in rather liquid paint of a girl in a red cardigan and an artist in a mustard- colored shirt. The Velazquez references sink back, as they are meant to do, into the matrix of observed reality...
...these assaults show, terrorism spans a spectrum from state-sponsored attacks to individual acts (like the exploits of the university and high-tech bomber) that straddle an ill-defined border between terrorism and plain ordinary crime. The mix, however, has been changing. The traditional tightly organized, centrally directed, usually left-wing and often state-financed networks of highly trained terrorists are in decline. The end of the cold war has deprived them of the money, weapons and safe havens that used to be provided by Moscow and Eastern Europe. Syria and Libya, traditional sources of training, direction and money, have...