Word: plainspokenness
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Scandinavian designers are popular too, particularly Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen. The U.S. is now the world's biggest buyer of Aalto's undulating but plainspoken furniture. Five years ago, it was only the 10th biggest...
...G.O.P. media consultant Alex Castellanos, "someone who can look you in the eye and tell you hard truths about big things and serious things." Even Democrats like Sheinkopf agree. "This scandal will redefine our politics," he says, "and take it back to basics. The candidate who succeeds will be plainspoken, honorable, not a lot of fluff. People want a President with fewer complications...
DIED. WRIGHT MORRIS, 88, writer-photographer of the middle-American gothic, who spun Fargo-like tales of small-town strangeness about his native Nebraska; in Mill Valley, Calif. His 33 books netted awards, but his plainspoken prose didn't sell well, dooming Morris to the dubious distinction of being one of America's most admired but least read men of letters...
...seal their transatlantic deal. It also shattered BT's plan to make the MCI merger the focus of its global strategy, a consequence that didn't much concern Ebbers. "We can realize far greater savings and synergies than BT can," he said, and punctuated the analysis with the plainspoken observation that "they just don't live here...
...bent on exposing what he calls Clinton's "Me, too" practice of snatching his ideas that his campaign has been releasing a "Commander in Thief Watch." (It asks, "If you have no ideas of your own, why not steal someone else's?") But it seems that the plainspoken Kansan is not above a little political plagiarism himself...