Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beyond faulty technology lies just plain human error...
...architectural style is Victorian Gothic, its penology just plain gothic. Or maybe Visigothic. It is a place designed not to reform but to drive you crazy. Cool is what you need to survive here, and supercool is what you need to maintain a semblance of humanity. Andy, who insists he has been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical...
...would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively approve. Republicans who backed those invasions even though Congress was never consulted in advance now insist the plain sense of the Constitution is that the President must not send troops into combat on his own hook if it can be avoided. Discounting for hypocrisy on both sides, Clinton's critics would seem to have the better of the argument. In the case of Haiti, the President can hardly...
...Straight-Talk Directive. In June 1993, Bob Boorstin, the task-force spokesman, urged colleagues to use plain language when explaining the plan. "The public cares less about the mechanics of ((health-care reform)), and when you talk to them, they want to know in English what will happen to them. Talk to them less like Ira," Boorstin advised, "and more like Roseanne...
Before I headed up to Harvard my freshman year, I received lots of advice from many different people. Some of it was helpful, some of it was not and some of it was just plain weird...