Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obviously found the multicultural gumbo of California ideal for developing a fiction in which facts, academic speculations and just plain jive freely cohabit. The overall effect in Louisiana Red is thoroughly disarming. His approach to the novel is not unlike a Dixieland band's approach to music: a native American diversity that adds up to a unified style-authentic and endlessly fresh. -R.Z. Sheppard
...saner times, The Alchemist would be just plain strange. The battle for high office pits Anita Tockbridge, an ambitious HEW official who tries to win the vice presidency on her back and in other positions, and Martin Dobecker, bureaucrat-alchemist, against the true freaks of a Washington fascinated with the occult...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
...Citizens must also make it plain that the police apparatus--from the Chief on down--is supposed to be designed as a support mechanism in the social order. It is not designed in order to beat someone's eye out--as in the Anderson case. It is not designed to close its collective eye to the anguished months--long cries for help before dreadful, unnecessary and racially-inspired killings occur--as in the Price family case...
...changes seem to have been made because Greenberg thought Smith's use of color in his late sculptures unsuccessful, and preferred plain steel to the white primer coats. "Clem never made any secret of his dislike of Smith's painted work," recalls former Guggenheim Museum Curator Edward Fry, who organized a major Smith retrospective...