Word: plain
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...this development occurred in plain view, of course, but until the morning of Aug. 24, 1992, no one seemed to recognize its implications. Hurricane Andrew was not merely a wake-up call; it was a stick of dynamite under the pillow. Prior to Andrew, no one envisioned more than $7 billion in insured losses for a single storm. But after Andrew's landfall, Karen Clark, founder of Applied Insurance Research Inc., in Boston, one of a new breed of "catastrophe modelers," sent an audacious message to her clients estimating insured losses at $9 billion. If Andrew proved to be more...
...left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking up among the dead, I started screaming... And then I thought of my woman and our first night together, and in spite of the corpses, I smiled...
...Absent from those and any other of Mahathir's proclamations over the past few years has been any sense of personal culpability for the tar pit that his country?s economy has abruptly become. The usual Asian suspects ?- crony capitalism, lack of financial disclosure and plain old-fashioned corruption ?- are as responsible for Malaysia's fall from grace as any of the wretched excesses of Western investment capitalists. But now, Mahathir has in mind for Malaysia a resurgence that not only restores to his people their achingly recent prosperity but forces a cataclysmic readjustment of the way the West would...
...second half of Slavs! begins exchanges dark humor for just plain darkness, but the exchange is an important one. Jessica Shapiro '00, playing a "mutant" little Siberian girl named Vodya who cannot speak due to radiation poisoning, gives a haunting performance without saying a word--one that resonates in your head for days. Erin Billings '99, as Vodya's mother, laces her character with such hostile helplessness that one wants to both hug her and run far away from her. Her poisonous glares at Rodent and her razor-sharp words chill the entire audience to the bone; yet one cannot...
...President isn't the only one bedeviled by references to Monica Lewinsky's besmirched dress. How were news organizations handling the sticky issue of the stain? While some were plain--ABC News, the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times used the word "semen"--others were more circumspect. "Physical evidence" was the phrase favored at NPR, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, while "bodily fluids" prevailed at CBS News. NBC News and MSNBC went with "DNA evidence," the Washington Post liked "DNA material," and the Christian Science Monitor said "forensic evidence that might suggest sexual contact." The Russian news...