Word: plainspokenness
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...dress-up uniforms, they're an exotic-looking bunch: wearing kilts, playing bagpipes, sporting tam-o'-shanters with a red feather. This Scottish army regiment seems out of place in Iraq, transferred from Basra to bolster U.S. troops bogged down in the "triangle of death" near Baghdad. But their plainspoken, Highland-accented gripes about the war have a familiar ring. "You're no' really doing the job you're trained for," says one soldier. "You're no' defending your country. We're invading their country and f______ their...
...knowledgeable source told TIME that Palin plans to deliver a relatively short, plainspoken address in the voice of an ordinary working mom. She'll talk about challenging old-boy networks - oil companies, Alaska's corrupt GOP establishment - and learning to lead. Raising five kids while making a career won't necessarily earn you an invitation to the Council on Foreign Relations, but it does instill organization and discipline. That's what Palin brings to the table, the source said...
Letts, 42, has lost the accent but not the plainspoken prairie equanimity of his Oklahoma roots. Both his parents were academics in the small college town of Durant, so it was something of a scandal when he ditched college and moved to Dallas at 17 to become an actor. From there he moved to Chicago, where he became enamored of the "gritty, in-your-face theater" exemplified by Steppenwolf. But it was a struggle. He had to move back home after a year to earn money, he battled drug and alcohol problems, and, after moving to Los Angeles...
Standing on a wooden platform located deep inside his open-pit mine, Pat Crisby, a plainspoken Newfoundlander, makes a startling observation. "We move enough dirt to fill the SkyDome in 48 hours," says Crisby, a fiftyish manager at Syncrude Canada Ltd., a company that is the Incredible Hulk of North America's biggest and richest resource deposit: Alberta's oil sands. The idea of filling the 60,000-seat home of the Toronto Blue Jays (now called Rogers Centre) with sticky, bitumen-laced soil from the Aurora North mine in a weekend is mind-boggling. But it puts the business...
...examination of the rich never proceeds beyond their stinginess, and her look at America’s treatment of Native Americans never emerges from simply assigning blame. These conclusions may be true, but they fail to merit the project of the poem.Beyond her polemics, Paley’s plainspoken nature reveals a subtle sense of humor. In “I Met a Seducer,” she injects her own into her characters to create a memorable sequence of dialogue: “now said one what do we do / fly into each other’s arms said...