Word: plain
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...Sarah, Plain And Simple...
...readers don't seem to care. "History is a funny thing for cyberpunks," says Christopher Meyer, a music-synthesizer designer from Calabasas, California, writing on the WELL. "It's all data. It all takes up the same amount of space on disk, and a lot of it is just plain noise...
...PLEASURE TO MEET UP AGAIN with the Wittings, the warm, turn-of-the- century farm family introduced in Sarah, Plain and Tall, the Hallmark Hall of Fame 1991 hit. In SKYLARK (Feb. 7, CBS), the mail-order marriage of Sarah (Glenn Close) and Jacob (Christopher Walken) has turned into a tender love match, and Sarah's stepchildren are thriving. The problem is nature: a serious drought is threatening life on the Kansas plains. In Sarah, Jacob was the one who had to put his past in perspective; this time, the drought forces his wife to take a similar journey. Unfortunately...
...second round of hearings opened Thursday, it was plain that Baird was a woman without a constituency. She had no track record with women's groups, Washington insiders or public-interest groups. Not even professional women with children rushed to her defense...
...Clinton was equal to the occasion. His speech was, for him, stunningly brief: 14 minutes. It contained fewer memorable lines than some previous Inaugurals, and its occasional attempts at poetry ("In the depth of winter . . . we force the spring") seemed mildly strained. But in concentrated form and effective, though plain, language, the President defined all the major themes of his Administration -- above all, change. Generational change: the 46-year-old Clinton paid a graceful tribute to the generation of his 68-year- old predecessor and summoned his fellow baby boomers less to take over than to assume "new responsibilities." Change...