Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honor the dead. And especially interesting is a silvered-iron mask of a man's face with rough cast-iron "hair" made in the first century A.D. More spontaneous in spirit is the bronze "Horseman" cavorting, only three inches high yet painstakingly, masterfully fashioned. Ostentation, heroism, eroticism and plain whimsy--all are here. Collections of such variety are rare indeed. Veritable treasures...
...least at that stage of her life, motivated by ideas. It was wonderful. It's hard if you're an actress to have to portray women who on some level are either neurotic or lacking in something-desperately needing the love of a man, or just plain superficial. Whenever a man-woman relationship comes along, there's always some game playing, and this was a film where there was no game playing. Lillian was relentlessly what she was, you know, as was Julia...
There'll be a new champion, that's plain...
...every first name sends forth "psychological vibrations" that affect our lives. Summarizing four studies that sampled public reaction to first names, Andersen, who writes for PEOPLE magazine, lists "894 Names and What They Really Mean." The results will displease people named Martha -which psychologically vibrates to mean "unexciting"-Patricia (plain), Mark (spoiled) and Basil (sinister...
Heightened truth, symbolic truth, fictional truth-all these new terms can be pretty upsetting to those who want the plain, unvarnished truth. But truth has its own complexity. Even in the most straight-arrow precincts of journalism-in newspaper city rooms, newsmagazine offices and television newsrooms, where facts are regarded as the inviolable raw material-it is recognized that facts don't speak for themselves. Note how all the professionals refer to their own necessary pattycaking of an event into narrative shape giving it emphasis and a beginning, middle and end, as a story...