Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something that seemed straightforward suddenly get so complicated? As it turned out, Lewinsky's lawyers did not have much to say to Starr's attorneys. Ginsburg wasn't even doing the negotiating; Washington criminal lawyer Nathaniel Speights was. Starr's team wasn't satisfied by what Lewinsky volunteered, which a source close to the investigation said wasn't a proffer at all; Lewinsky's lawyers have simply been dribbling out bits of information. Republicans were worried that the most she would testify to was that Clinton's legal advice to Lewinsky amounted to little more than vague suggestions. If perhaps...
...steamy, sordid swamp currently engulfing the White House presented a ripe opportunity for sex education, as it has for so many American kids with big ears and eager minds. As a parent, I've always believed that a child curious and capable enough to frame a straightforward question deserves a straightforward answer. Gauging the depth and breadth of the answer is the tough part...
...Through therapy and counseling... Depressionis a very treatable, straightforward condition,"he says...
...Through therapy and counseling... Depressionis a very treatable, straightforward condition,"he says...
...think of Renaissance portraiture as straightforward: here's Duke X, the man to the life, speaking through his realistic effigy; that's the armor he wore when he did the Turk in--and so forth. Lotto's portraits tend to be more complicated than that. Take, for instance, his magnificently assured portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527. Odoni, a rich Venetian, collected Greco-Roman antiquities, and the clue to this painting is the statuette he shows in his hand--an image of Artemis, goddess of the Ephesians, denounced by St. Paul. But his other hand clasps a crucifix to his breast...