Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people just don't belong at the MAC. Plain and simple...
...presence of a TV camera -- one in plain sight, that is -- can help keep police on their best behavior. And it inhibits suspects from getting violent, some officers contend. TV cameras can also help prosecutors later on. David Magnusson, a former street cop for Greater Miami's Metro-Dade police who now works in the department's press office, recalls a man arrested for dope possession who stuffed his stash in his mouth and swallowed it. Knowing his actions had been taped by a Cops crew, however, he pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence...
Whether one peruses Matisse, the master reductionist, who uses plain black brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...
These proposed changes are just plain silly, and I'll tell...
...country music's postfeminist performers, both scenarios seem a waste of time. The middle-aged women in K.T. Oslin's work are busy warning their lovers that they are chronically fickle, are having careers while their ex-husbands have custody of the child, or are just plain contemplating the legacy of their past revolts. "Oh we've burned our bras and we've burned our dinners/ And we've burned our candles at both ends," is her bittersweet assessment in 80's Ladies. Meanwhile, Trisha Yearwood sings about a woman with such a sense of autonomy that she demands...