Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long, I found places that are literally in our backyard that I had never seen before. I finally admitted to myself that my lack of Boston appreciation was not the fault of the T, the city planners, or my courseload. My not exploring the city has been laziness, plain and simple...
...while these pieces are funny, they are not necessarily poetry; remove the line breaks and you have simply an anecdote. In other words, if T.S. Eliot's poetry was stylistically artificial and thematically impersonal, and Robert Lowell's was artificial but personal, Donald Hall's is personal and plain...
Regardless of any labeling one could do, each work, whether plain or vaguely complex, possesses a quiet stubbornness. This perception, when paired with Rabinowitch's play on the act of placing pieces in a certain context, makes the exhibition worth a quick look. But since Rabinowitch seems satisfied to work mainly with the object in relation to its environment and with solid, hot, rolled steel, the human element (barring the observer) sometimes feels lacking. A gay romp round to the nearby portraitures, however, should surely suffice...
Edward Sepanek, 44, of 65 Glen Road in Jamaica Plain was arrested by a Harvard police officer and charged with larceny from a building after he allegedly took the purse of a female employee of the Fairchild Biology Laboratory, located at 17 Divinity...
...first few tracks are rock'n'roll, plain and simple. "How the West Was Won and What it Got Us" has the over-produced slickness of, say, an INXS song; Stipe's voice even has a touch of Michael Hutcheson's throaty howl. Yet "West" succeeds by relying on its lazy seductiveness and evoking the bleary, muted resentment of the afternoon after the morning after...