Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dick Tracy Warren Beatty and a brilliant crew turn comic-strip art into glamorous movie artifice. This is not only a straightforward rendering of the story about the big-city dick with a right-angle jaw; it is also a tribute to the lithe, blithe entertainment that Hollywood once served up with style...
Yesterday morning you joined a final club. And since I wasn't entirely straightforward with you when we talked Sunday night, I want to tell you now how I feel. This is not a private letter, and I apologize. But your decision is not a private one, and so I can't really respond to it that...
Mexico is a country where nothing is ever quite what it seems. Appointments are made to be broken. Most prices are negotiable. Saving face is more important than telling the truth. Yet what President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is striving to achieve is unusually straightforward. Since his inauguration in December 1988, Mexico's 42-year-old leader has trained his formidable skills on awakening his country from inward-looking torpor to a world where market forces are increasingly international and interdependent...
...straightforward case hanging on athletic ability. Easy to do if a needed `1' [athletic rating], pretty ordinary...
Verhoeven could have made a straightforward documentary on the subject; in fact he did, as a companion piece to The Nasty Girl. But in this movie he dresses fact up as fable. Passau becomes Pfilzing, and Anja Rosmus is now Sonja Rosenberger, a precocious sprite full of life and full of herself. The movie takes its spirit from Sonja; it is bold, nettlesome and great...