Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second meal Woolf describes, at a women's college, consists of a "plain gravy soup," stringy beef "with its attendant greens and potatoes--a homely trinity," prunes "exuding a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth for eighty years and yet not given to the poor," custard to mitigate the prunes and biscuits so dry as to require jugs of water to wash them down. After this unsettling meal, she speculates, "We are all probably going to heaven, and Vandyck is, we hope, to meet us round the next corner--that...
...even relaxed conversation. It is not enough to make do with lukewarm corn and limp pasta and hope to foster a night of insights. We must accept that on many nights, Dining Services, no matter how well-intentioned, will not present us with anything more than stringy prunes and plain gravy soup. We must conjure our own culinary havens...
...Even the communist-dominated Duma, usually no friend to Yeltsin, cheered Lebed's dismissal. "It should have happened a month ago," said Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov. But now that it has, Zyuganov and Yeltsin are equally threatened politically by Lebed. The former paratrooper's pragmatic platform of crime fighting, plain speaking and his undiluted conviction that Russia has a place as a great power make him popular with the electorate. Now that Lebed is out, he can portray himself as the last honest man in the Yeltsin administration, a result which is probably a calculated risk on the Kremlin...
Technically, the movie looks by turns stunning and plain, whichever is appropriate. In some shots, Leigh prefers to give the actors full attention, ignoring all else (which perhaps led to the scene between Cynthia and Hortense in a restaurant that is completely devoid of waitstaff and customers). But in others, Leigh has composed the screen with the care of a painter: here, Maurice sits brooding in a bar such that we expect to see a glass of absinthe; there, a ringing phone becomes a demon in the dark as Cynthia nervously approaches...
Possible remedies which she considered while a member of the Court's Gender Bias Task Force included flexible scheduling of hearings and "writing decisions which can be read in plain English," Marshall told the Council...