Word: plainspokenness
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...late-night bars and lonely roads), but Springsteen tilts them so that familiar territory can suddenly seem like a forbidding landscape. Love hurts, love haunts, love heals in these songs. The title cut suggests an amusement-park romp but ends with the kind of lyric reflection that is perfectly plainspoken and impossible to shake: "The house is haunted and the ride gets rough/ And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above/ If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love." Raymond Carver, take a turn around the floor with...
After his forceful testimony, the embattled George Shultz seems in no mood to resign. At the department he heads, morale soared. Said a Foggy Bottom official: "George went out and was George. He was honest and plainspoken. He showed the department to be the only honorable entity in all of the mess." From the White House came high praise from Reagan, though some presidential aides thought Shultz had been self-serving. A spokesman said the President hoped Shultz would continue at his post...
...about the controversial practice of "colorizing" black-and-white movies. Joined by fellow Directors Milos & Forman and Sydney Pollack, Allen protested the computerized coloring of such classics as It's a Wonderful Life and Casablanca, calling the result "cheesy, artificial symbols of one society's greed." Allen was equally plainspoken about how he felt on becoming a father for the first time. The auteur, 51, said that his longtime girlfriend Mia Farrow, 42, had become pregnant "by accident" and that he has no plans to marry or move in with the actress, who already has eight children...
...forth in more than 700 remarkable objects. These run from Isaac Oliver's exquisitely realized miniature of three reflective siblings of the Montague family, clad in sober Catholic black, to an intimidating silver wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey...
Robert Beck, chairman of both the Prudential Insurance Co. of America and the Business Roundtable, was polite but very plainspoken. Businessmen were frightened by the deficits. They had all concluded there was no chance the U.S. was going to grow its way out of those huge shortfalls. Their priorities for this year, from one through ten, were all the same: do something about the deficits...