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...Eurocentric sport--and who specialize in songs that are tuneful and direct, such as their irresistible sing-along hit Hold My Hand; indeed, the band's cheeky but wholesome appeal is not dissimilar to the early, hand-holding Beatles'. Detractors basically agree with this characterization. But they find the straightforward, seemingly optimistic nature of the band's music profoundly, aggressively boring and see the group's goofy, Dan Marino-in-a-cameo videos as shamelessly unironic throwbacks to the don't-worry-be-happy aesthetic of the '80s. Matters won't be helped any by the new album's packaging...
Colleagues praise Russell's ability and her straightforward approach...
...PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm for staying too long on the campaign trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that...
...most profitable Hollywood studio, year in and year out. He was considered a lock for the chairmanship of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company. Then he lost a power struggle and jumped ship for 20th Century Fox in 1984. His reason for subsequently leaving Fox in 1992 was straightforward: "It's not mine," he said at the time. "I'm both young enough and old enough to want to own my own store ... It's the one thing I haven't done." In other words, though he had fought his way into becoming one of the most powerful...
...Buying of the President is not entertaining reading; indeed, it's rarely even well-written, as one might expect from a book authored by a committee, the "Center for Public Integrity." Instead, it offers a straightforward list of dirty deals, some of them so brazen that it makes U.S. politics seem little better than Italy's or Mexico...