Word: plainspokenness
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...refuge from a violent lover, a government bureaucracy that takes away her housing allowance the minute she earns a little extra income. This made- for-TV movie has more authentic feminist spirit than Murphy Brown, more realism and heart than The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, and more plainspoken charm than any TV movie seen in the U.S. in years...
While Al Gore, Mario Cuomo and other big-name Democrats continue to shy away from the presidential race, lesser-known hopefuls are trotting forward. Now seriously considering a run: Democratic Senator MAX BAUCUS of Montana. A plainspoken moderate, Baucus knows he is a longshot against Bush (who isn't?). But Baucus feels that winning the nomination would at least give him the chance to position himself...
...Protestant churches seem obsessed with sex these days. Not that their interest in the subject is new. Puritan disquisitions on sex were so plainspoken that early 20th century editions of them had to be bowdlerized. But the terms of today's discussion are revolutionary -- not Why do men sin? but Why shouldn't they party? Traditional strictures against homosexuality, premarital sex (once called fornication), even adultery, are up for theological debate. The Presbyterians in conclave assembled gave thumbs down to the new morality; the Episcopalians gave thumbs sideways; the United Methodist Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will...
...rides into the political battlefield. "There's a great expression I've always believed," Schwarzkopf observes. " 'The higher the monkey gets up the flagpole, the more opportunity he has to show his ass.' Or I should say his rear end." Perhaps even a public desperate for a plainspoken hero will give him some time off to collect his thoughts...
...union official in London that "Maxwell is a rogue . . . watch out for him." Instead, McDonald and colleagues found themselves praising the new owner -- who at week's end still required formal rank-and-file ratifications -- as a "tough negotiator who understands problems fast." They enthused about how straightforward and plainspoken he was, how quick to extend a hand to shake on a proposed deal. Having reduced the options to Maxwell or nothing, they did not challenge his characterization of the cuts as "historical, unprecedented and necessary to guarantee the return of the Daily News to the streets of New York...