Word: straightforwardly
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...There's nothing new here. The tactics went back to classic anti-trust cases," Klein said. "This was straightforward intimidation...
...basic science is pretty straightforward. The earth lurches from time to time because its outer shell is broken into 11 huge, solid plates floating on a layer of molten rock that has the consistency of Silly Putty. These tectonic plates are constantly jostling each other, like rafts crowded into a small pond, and it's along the boundaries where they meet that most quakes are born. The two plates that form California's infamous San Andreas Fault, the Pacific and the North American plates, are the largest on Earth. And they're moving inexorably in opposite directions...
...signs held by the protesters ranged from the straightforward ("stop biotech") to the witty ("resistance is fertile") to the political ("money for food, not corporation") to the amusing ("genetically modified frosted freaks") and even the profane ("buck fiotech...
Tiepolo's Hound, in other words, is not a novel disguised as verse, with straightforward plot lines and a handy denouement. Its mood is ruminative rather than expository. Its progress is circular, a slow eddy of recurring images and motifs. At the center lie questions about culture and history and race and art that are not answered--no single answers could satisfy such questions--but set in rhythmical equilibrium...
...wrestling is a business; it's an art; it's a pain. "The more you hurt each other," says veteran Terry Funk, "the more money you make." Funk is one of the stars of this straightforward documentary about a multibillion-dollar, sado-spectacular "sport." Blaustein, co-writer of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, puts no comic spin on his love of wrestling, but he does get his beefy athlete-artistes to reveal themselves as dedicated, complicated, twisted souls--like any other actors. They know that their punishment is our pleasure...