Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-abortion activists believe that a fetus is as human as you and me. Abortion for them is murder, plain and simple. And Medicaid funding of abortion is nothing less than state-sponsored execution. If you believe that, how can you not picket abortion clinics and fight for a Constitutional amendment? If murder is happening in America's hospitals every day, how can you not fight to stop...
Finally, it would be a disservice to the play to omit mention of the various other experimental devices or odd techniques. These range from the set pregnant with meaning (the plain soil of a garden; the sexually suggestive rope of a swing) to the rather obtrusive lighting (a programmed sequence of flashes as Dora polishes a plate). The sun seems to rise and set in the same place, or never to set; a moon figures prominently as well. Singing crops up now and again unexpectedly. Sound effects--a car starting, space-aged boings--provide a sort...
...World Wide Web, the information network that links computers and perhaps eventually phones and televisions. Bell Atlantic, says Smith, will offer Internet access and Web-based software even as it fights for long-distance, cellular and wireless turf. "This is not going to be a fight over plain old telephones," he vows. "We're going to battle for the Web crowd...
...foundations that would benefit greatly were Clinton to be crippled by Starr's findings on Whitewater and lose re-election. Clinton wouldn't touch a question about Starr until last Thursday. Then, asked whether Starr should step down, he said, "The facts are what they are, and they're plain...
...surprising, because Alagna and Gheorghiu have a rare ability to reach beyond the boundaries of the ordinary operagoing public and create visceral excitement. Call it plain old sex appeal. The audience enjoys seeing real-life lovers playing doomed heroes and heroines onstage. Alagna plays the 19th century romantic lover with a modern twist, reinterpreting a vanished ideal for the 1990s--no sobs or lunges here. Gheorghiu's calling card is the home video of the Solti Traviata (London). This is an opera in which the soprano must rule the stage, and she brings a riveting combination of glamour, poignancy...