Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect of family obligations, runaway teenage births, nihilistic violence by macho males, etc.). The simplistic catharsis of xenophobic, Afrocentrist discourse is just plain useless in the face of these manifold crises confronting perhaps 40 percent of Black households today...
...simplistic catarsis of xenophobic, Afro-centrist discourse is just plain useless...
...such diverse tunes as the Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli jazz tune "Swing '42," and the perennial Italian wedding favorite "O Sole Mio," neither of these tunes have any relation to American folk music, nor do they sound particularly interesting performed on guitar and mandolin. Sometimes a jazz tune is just plain better when played by jazz musicians on traditional jazz instruments...
...would be tempting to put Jake's problems down to plain bad luck -- but in fact the odds were against him from the start. While most golden retrievers are healthier than Jake, a shocking 60% of them end up with the dysplasia that may yet cripple him, according to the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine. Many are born with an undescended testicle, another hereditary condition vets say can cause the gland to become cancerous...
...address to follow up on his fence-mending speech to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- and Sunday, Clinton said he would propose the tax cut if he could find a way to pay for it. How? TIME White House correspondent James Carney says the leading solution's hidden in plain sight: preliminary Administration proposals revealed last week to scrap the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as other federal agencies and dozens of federal programs. "This is all about a search for money to pay for a tax cut -- and about looking like he got the message from...