Word: plainspokenness
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Following such estimable models as The Civil War and Eyes on the Prize, The Promised Land (produced by Anthony Geffen and based on the critically acclaimed 1991 book by Nicholas Lemann) recounts this social history with understated narration (by Morgan Freeman), evocative music (blues and gospel) and the plainspoken words of people who lived through it. They are mostly anonymous folks, free of sanctimony or self-importance. People like Uless Carter, a bespectacled, Mississippi-born minister, who reminisces with the sweet-tempered grace of a character in a John Ford western. Or James Hinton, one of 22 children of Alabama...
...documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...
...Washington to take over the congressional seat of her late husband. The show aims to update Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the heroine is a naive ex-beauty queen from Georgia who doesn't know the difference between columnist William Safire and Sapphire, her maid, yet in her plainspoken way possesses more wisdom than the capital's sophisticates...
Love 'em or hate 'em, Harry and Louise were at least plainspoken. The fictional TV critics of Clinton's health-care plan legitimized the frustration many Americans feel when they try to make sense of the debate over the intricacies of health care. Now Harry and Louise have been quietly shelved, the victims of a deal involving one of the thornier issues in the battle. In what was probably one of his last acts as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dan Rostenkowski and the fictitious couple's sponsor, the Health Insurance Association of America, agreed to soften...
American Jews tended to ignore, or even alibi, black anti-Semitism because they had long been conditioned to hearing violent and plainspoken hate talk about themselves from the extremist right, and for years had trouble discerning the very same noises coming from those whom they took, mistakenly, to be liberals like themselves. Members of the organized Jewish community also have an enormous investment in their relations with the black community, having for so long a time been the most visible and generous nonblack allies of the civil rights movement...