Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Holland has none of the natural genius of a filmmaker like Jane Campion, and Washington Square has little of the daring or visual audacity of Campion's own James adaptation, last year's grievously ignored Portrait of a Lady. At the same time, Holland's straightforward storytelling may give audiences more access into James than Campion's almost frightening originality...
...think it's very straightforward and explains things clearly," Moran said. "I like the fact that it's concise and doesn't ramble...
...relative) commercial innocence on the Net, in which software written in one place worked in another. These "open" standards were one of the charms of the original Web. Every one of its millions of pages could be read by any browsing program. Opening a page was as straightforward (and error-free) as opening a novel. No more. Both firms, intent on boosting market share, have loaded their programs with noncompatible features, so data configured for Netscape can look like mush on Explorer. As exciting as it is to see such slick Web products...
...woman in her late 60s or early 70s who, in despair, had pointed a pistol at her chest and pulled the trigger. As she lay in the emergency room of a small hospital in California's Central Valley, her condition presented no great medical challenge; it was fairly straightforward compared with many of the messy youth shootings that confront E.R. doctors nowadays. Yet the woman's attempted suicide proved to be an epiphany for the young physician who attended her. It not only altered his life and career but also would affect countless other victims of gunshot wounds--and would...
...with harsh diagnoses. "What stands out here is the stupidity, even more than the venality," snapped Dr. Quentin Young, head of an advocacy organization called the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, adding, "The A.M.A. is cashing in its debilitated reputation as a guardian of American health and becoming straightforward feather merchants...