Word: plainspokenness
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School counselors were swamped, especially the plainspoken 58-year-old who doubled as softball coach. "Mr. Averbuch told me, 'If I was in Jeremy's position, I would want you guys to be celebrating the good things I did in my life rather than mourning,'" says Stephanie Murray, a pitcher...
...content myself with a frenzied conversation with all the luminaries involved with the film on the top floor of a New York high-rise hotel. Sometimes it was hard to tell them all apart; everyone who worked on the movie seemed to wear many proverbial hats. Plainspoken wunderkind director Spike Jonze is basking in the glow of his meaty supporting role acting in Three Kings. The producer Michael Stipe is also the frontman for R.E.M.--and, incidentally, likes to wear sparkly eyeshadow. Curlyheaded screenwriter Charlie Kaufman doubled as the executive producer of the film (and has a slew of strange...
...there more to McCain than his plainspoken realism in foreign affairs? To become the natural alternative to Bush, McCain will have to compete on domestic turf, and here his favorite issues have earned him more bruises than badges of honor. He's known mostly for his unsuccessful efforts to reform the nation's campaign-finance laws and to curtail teenage smoking, both of which infuriated party leaders and rankled many of McCain's colleagues. And the Senator's long battle against pork-barrel spending has earned him few friends on Capitol Hill. "I don't believe I'm going...
...look at the images in the show and consider what matters most in a President. Foremost still are the issues that move our leaders. When it comes to personal character, we want them to be not so much straight arrows as straight shooters, not necessarily plain but preferably plainspoken...
Critics have carped about the play's sometimes pretentious language ("Nobody dast blame this man..."). But at its best Miller's dialogue was unmatched for its plainspoken eloquence and economy. Willy, the blusterer with big dreams for his sons, meets Bernard, the nerdy next-door neighbor, now grown up and about to argue a case before the Supreme Court--but possessing too much compassion for Willy to brag about it. Miller captured the essence of Willy's self-delusion and failure in a brief exchange charged with emotion, wit and character insight. Call that poetry...