Word: straight-forward
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...Walker's opponents often fail to pay attention to the visual characteristic of her art. They write without noticing the peculiarities of her medium, as though she were simply presenting straight-forward racist scenarios in photographs or realistic paintings. But if a silhouette isn't a photograph, then a stereotype isn't a stereotype in Walker's hands...
...ironic titles in this series act out, and mock, the social structures she depicts in her more straight-forward anthropological work. Some deal with romance and male-female relationships, such as "Am I Pretty?" an arrangement of seven stag beetles on pebble-wall. One beetle holds a yellow star-shape bead meant to represent a crown. The human cult the beauty pageant is played out by Norfleet's arthropod actors...
Here we have a straight-forward case of Israeli and Palestinian national interests clashing. International law, the Oslo Accords, American law and precedent are clearly on the Israeli side. Yet President Clinton, a self-proclaimed friend of Israel, has rebuked Israel, not the Palestinians. It seems that the United States expects more restraint and abnegation of national interest from Israeli democracy than from Arafat's murderous dictatorship...
...appeal for economic students is equally straight-forward, students say. China and Japan are seen, in the words of one concentrator, as "emerging markets...
...Asia Society in New York City, even this pared-down version of the exhibit illuminates the ever-relevant subject of split national identities. To the exacting eye, however, the show comments more tellingly on the individual, human reaction to adversity in general, merely placed against the sometimes straight-forward backdrop of nationalities...