Word: straightforwardly
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...product; he's like a UPN show trying to capture 5% of the audience. Whereas for the Big Two, clever is dangerous. You can inadvertently alienate important sectors of the electorate (for instance, the stupid) or come off as slick and dishonest. Since Watergate, ads have been much more straightforward--and artless. When the media landscape is carpet-bombed with ugly, blaring ads, perhaps every ad, regardless of its content, becomes a negative...
...interview from going further, leaving his answer as a denial. Hughes has disputed Slater's account, saying Bush insists he didn't answer no to the first question; by leaving Slater with the "impression" that there might have been another arrest in his life, she suggested, Bush was being straightforward. Slater didn't write about this exchange, but he described it to another writer, who included it in a profile of Hughes that appeared in the New Republic in November...
...technology that does this is called adaptive optics, and it was originally developed in secrecy by the Department of Defense to help military snoops take sharp pictures of Soviet spy satellites. Largely declassified in the 1980s, it's now being adapted for major telescopes everywhere. The idea is straightforward: stars and galaxies twinkle and shimmer because turbulent pockets of air act as weak, light-distorting lenses (heat rising from a car's hood or an asphalt parking lot causes a similar effect). With adaptive optics, though, a computer can measure the shimmer and cancel it out (see diagram...
...verbal vollies of the Gore and Bush camps have been relatively straightforward, but barbed. The subtext of Jim Baker's remarks was, "Al, you lost, give it up, don't put the republic through this." The subtext of Daley's remarks was, "Something's rotten in the state of Florida. Let's find out what...
...Most of the forms were fairly straightforward, and there were people there to help [the students]," Smith said of the dining hall drives. "I couldn't imagine it was any fault of the students who registered that...