Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...words that worked were sometimes quite revealing. Straightforward oral sex, for example, generally got a lukewarm response. But when Thomas described the same images using words like choke or choking, consumer demand doubled...
...sniper fire in an unarmored "soft" car, and once he was held hostage overnight by mujahedin, foreign Islamic soldiers working with Bosnian Muslims. Says Graff: "The thing to do is make sure the risks you're undertaking are commensurate with the story you're getting. It's not a straightforward equation...
...Microsoft got religion about the Internet in a big way that day," says Release 1.0's Michalski. Product managers went back to Redmond determined to make their programs Internet-compatible. The Microsoft Network, originally intended as a straightforward commercial online service, was redesigned to embrace the Internet and eventually steer it in a profitable direction. Microsoft crafted a strategy by which the company could make it easier for people using Microsoft software to do everyday transactions over the networks-pay bills, order from catalogs, check bank balances. "Our plan," says Myhrvold, "is to make the pie really big and take...
...jaunty and straightforward as its title, Moo allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym. She writes course-catalog entries, student-fiction papers and newspaper articles (even in Spanish). She masters billionaire talk, bovine-cloning monologues and the shrewd counsel of black elder sisters. In its easy virtuosity and wicked glee, Moo is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work. And if Moo finally has more of a target than a point, it never allows us to forget that, in a certain context...
...form of dance pop that combines Top 40 melodies with the rhythms of Colombian cumbia and traditional Texas conjunto-the border music influenced by Czech and German polkas, featuring accordions and bajo sexto guitars. Selena's lyrics, which were often written in English and then translated into Spanish, are straightforward and simple. At the time of her death, Selena was working on her first English- language record, one that many felt would help her cross over as Gloria Estefan did. "She was one of us," said Rosemary Escamilla of Corpus Christi. "I'd see her at Wal-Mart...