Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exemplary pictures of the . camera-reporting tradition have bowed to pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium arch around a quickly readable image. Anyone who doubts that this time-honored method can still be affecting need only look to David Burnett's elegant and straightforward pictures of minor league baseball. But Burnett is the odd man out in this show, where the prevailing tone is more hectic or quizzical...
...fictionalized autobiography in which Kesey is called Devlin Deboree, a once celebrated novelist who served a short jail sentence in California for marijuana possession. Tracking the cast requires some familiarity with Beat Generation hagiography. The names Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso are included in a straightforward litany. But Neal Cassady, the loquacious speed demon, is swathed in multiple fictions. He is called Houlihan by Kesey-Deboree, who complicates matters by saying that Houlihan, rather than the real Cassady, was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road, as well as the prototype...
...until just the right moment to pounce on the best deal he can get. But there is another, less encouraging reason for the American strategy of playing black: the Administration is still so sharply divided over arms control that it quite simply is incapable of making bold or even straightforward moves. Once again last week's developments demonstrated the point. The Reagan response to Gorbachev was -- and continues to be -- the object of ferocious intramural battling and bickering between the State Department and the Pentagon...
...premise is a straightforward one. As Ripley was drifting through space after her previous close encounter of the unspeakable kind -- a flight that used up the equivalent of 57 earth years -- the alien planet was colonized. But now, suddenly, it has fallen silent. Is it possible that this wild tale of rampaging monsters she keeps telling is true? A party of Marines is sent out to investigate, and Ripley reluctantly accompanies them as a sort of Cassandra-cum-consultant...
...separate calls for no-confidence votes, forcing Peres to give in to a gale of protest from members of his own Labor Party and agree finally to the establishment of an official probe. "I am prepared to be questioned before any judicial commission," he said. "I acted in a straightforward and responsible manner...