Word: straightforwardly
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...fall elections are extremely straightforward,” Lee explained last week. “They don’t require any extensive planning...
...history of Madonna/whore complexes, no one has accomplished as much in 61 minutes as Xzibit has on his wobbly fourth album, Man Vs. Machine. On the exuberantly lascivious Choke Me, Spank Me (Pull My Hair) Xzibit is as straightforward as his title--a night with him is not about cuddling, ladies--while on Missin' U he tells his dear, departed mother, "What I wouldn't give for one more day with you." Xzibit claims this contradiction is part of an allegory (Man Vs. Machine is apparently a concept album about the difficulty of maintaining both underground and mainstream success...
...several characters. But don't believe the early hype that compares it to Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon: that's like saying because 24 takes place in one day, it's TV's Ulysses. Kurosawa questioned the nature of truth, telling a story through unreliable narrators. Boomtown's relatively straightforward narrative mainly means you get to see car crashes from two different angles. (CSI's flashbacks, which change as the investigators get closer to the truth, are more Rashomon-esque.) The cast, however, is fine, especially Donnie Wahlberg as a hangdog detective with a mentally ill wife, and the writing...
...ballads--with a slight country-blues feel. There's little of Beck's trademark musical schizophrenia and none of his arch humor. "I just wanted the record to be simple and clean," he says. "I wanted economy in the lyrics, and I wanted the songwriting to be very, very straightforward...
...application process was technically simple. The website was easy to use and the application questions were straightforward,” says Daniel J. Feith...