Word: plainspokenness
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...refused to preen. Perhaps he tacitly recognized that Iraq was not the most formidable foe -- closer to Grenada than to Nazi Germany in war-making savvy and casualties inflicted. But one suspects that this man's tone would be the same at the end of any war: a powerfully plainspoken mixture of triumph, requiem and relief...
...dejectedly weighing her waning options, Feinstein met privately with the president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, Eleanor Smeal, and three prominent members of the organization's Los Angeles leadership. The four took Feinstein to dinner in West Hollywood, and through an evening of intense, plainspoken woman talk, they strove to shore up her resolve...
...though she has lost 24 of them since starting a medically supervised all-liquid diet three weeks ago). As interviewers go, she is no match for, say, Phil Donahue, whose program was the obvious model for hers. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, however, she makes up in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah's eye or get a comforting arm around the shoulder. They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience...
...modernist reputations at once. Neither prizewinner is interested in making a pretense of mellowness. In the acceptance speech he prepared for his daughter to read, Niemeyer disparaged a "minor architecture made with a ruler and square" and, a bit self-servingly, endorsed the "search for the spectacular." The more plainspoken Bunshaft dismisses apostates and revels in his sense of vindication. "I think the committee is saying that modern architecture is pretty good," he reckons. "Young architects are turning away from postmodernism, and I think they're going to turn toward precision even more than modernism did. It'll make Lever...
Mubarak was assured of a second term in July, when he was nominated without opposition by the People's Assembly, Egypt's legislature. Although last week's vote lacked suspense, it was nonetheless a tribute to the staying power of the taciturn, plainspoken Mubarak, who was Vice President when President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. Mubarak has expanded democratic freedoms at a time of severe economic problems and rising Islamic fundamentalism. When he was chosen for his first term in the tense period immediately after Sadat's death, "the big turnout was not for Mubarak, it was for Egypt...