Word: straightforwardly
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That stage (which is actually a temporary assemblage of whatever plywood happens to be on hand), and its set, a straightforward gathering of dorm room furniture and the staple Red Sox banners and Rock Bottom beer handles, may be the only piece of vérité (or Veritas, if you will) the play has in common with its historical inspiration: how in 1995, the Harvard perfectionist and his fun-loving high school buddy wrote the screenplay that launched a thousand People magazine covers. Indeed, the folklore that surrounds these two Cantabridgians is the subtext for Matt and Ben, which...
These divergent opinions were influenced by his style: Bush spoke simply, “not an intellectual, but a good speaker, just like today,” says Eckhart. Some believed that his straightforward style of talking masked a lot of intelligence...
...idea of sculpture as precious object—and the commodification of art by museums implied therein—by using cheap, everyday materials in their work. They stripped down their creative process to a kind of deadpan manufacturing, with little craftsmanship, no complexity of form and utterly straightforward construction. But this did not mean that they wished to destroy sculpture altogether. In fact, they seemed to think that some aspects of the viewer’s experience of sculpture were inherently valuable, and that the viewer-sculpture encounter should be celebrated. To this end—and also...
...opening number offered a straightforward contrast between East Asian and South Asian dance forms, with the SADC and AADT dancing side by side to the same music, each in their respective styles, but from there the expected “fusion” grew more and more complex...
...course, not all political film-making of the past was characterized by such straightforward objectivity. The 1964 feature The Best Man, based on a stage play by Gore Vidal, resonates with today’s negative politics, as it dramatizes several candidates’ efforts to smear and outmaneuver their opponents behind the scenes of a political convention. Vidal criticized both ends of the political spectrum, basing her Machiavellian politicos on real-life figures ranging from Adlai Stevenson to Barry Goldwater...