Several lawmakers described Powell as more plainspoken than his predecessors.
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They both try to frame themselves as plainspoken, average Americans.
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She's also wildly erudite, but straightforward, even plainspoken, in her vocabulary.
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"There was something about Carrie that's so plainspoken," Herzog told me.
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Elsewhere, there's a Messy Bessy, a Gin Jeanie, and the plainspoken Joyce.
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Nylan's translation of "The Art of War," however, is marvelously pointy and plainspoken.
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Her singing is dazed and plainspoken; she's talking to herself, bluntly, under her breath.
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" Barr previously offered The Hill a more plainspoken assessment, calling the obstruction investigation "asinine.
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Sloan, a plainspoken and affable executive, was never great casting as a change agent.
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He wants the best for the world and has remained plainspoken and dad-jeans-clad.
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Both are brash, plainspoken street fighters, examples of an American archetype: the populist rich guy.
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You can be earnest or flippant, plainspoken or baroque, blunt or coy, dilettante or geek.
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He stuck to the plainspoken approach that serves him well electorally, even as pundits disparage it.
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At thirty, she was plainspoken and direct, with a quiet self-assurance that seemed hard-won.
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Trained as an electrical engineer, he has a reputation among many Cubans as a plainspoken problem solver.
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He is an accomplished writer who disdains legalese, often drafting complex opinions in plainspoken, well-crafted prose.
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Kander has the gifted politician's knack of making whatever he's talking about seem both plainspoken and right.
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" Wilder provided a base of plainspoken language and deeply felt storytelling; Lane embellished, shaped and "heightened the drama.
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Solange is especially effective with pulling the listener in with plainspoken confessionals stating that your journey isn't a lonely one.
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Her plainspoken lyrics are biting in the best way (especially "when I say that your love ain't real / it's trash").
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They are more plainspoken, politically and personally, than her stories, though often full of the same surprising humor and wit.
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"No, I'd prefer to just be sitting at home just living my quiet little life," the plainspoken Queenslander told reporters.
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However it's not all sad: Abstract's plainspoken hook "today imma be whoever I wanna be" acts as reassurance to their woes.
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A plainspoken man who has appeared at major political events wearing a striped sweater, Morales inspires deep loyalty among his partisans.
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Matthias is American poetry's premier "midwestern Modernist": his work combines Hemingway's plainspoken straightforwardness, Pound's recondite allusiveness, and Stein's delight in sheer wordplay.
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Instantly recognizable with her white hair and pearls, she was a plainspoken yet feisty public figure who adopted literacy as her cause.
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To most Americans, who have no idea of who Pence is, he presented himself as plainspoken, easy to watch and listen to.
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Others are plainspoken and you might not like what they're saying, but you can trust them because they're not out to win favors.
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The emphasis of his contemporaries was on extracting plainspoken beauty from familiar Dutch topography, such as damp riverine scenes or clusters of cottages.
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If you like plaintive and plainspoken or have a bit of love for good old-fashioned folk music, this is the jam for you.
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At the center of "Enema of the State" sits "Adam's Song," a plainspoken chronicle of depression, with a video that became an MTV staple.
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First, because when a plainspoken, widely admired investment god like Buffett proves to have feet of clay, I think people should know about it.
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Representative Steve King, the staunchly conservative and proudly plainspoken firebrand from Iowa, was among the handful of Republicans on Wednesday to take issue with Gov.
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We saw the bighearted, plainspoken statesman; the emotional, avuncular politician; and the cringe-inducing guy who sometimes overdoes it or just plain steps in it.
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This might seem a straightforward victory—the narrator has unburdened herself—but Rogers's plainspoken acknowledgment of the self-destruction that accompanies true metamorphosis is eloquent.
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The theme of TED's conference was "The Future You," and Francis did what he does best, delivering a plainspoken sermon on the importance of interconnection and tenderness.
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But here, he ditches much of the ramshackle arrangements for his must lushly-orchestrated LP yet while still managing to keep his plainspoken warmth as a frontman.
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Her clarity of purpose and singular, quiet insistence on dealing with such mundane things call to mind the plainspoken directness of the great American poet William Carlos Williams.
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It's a plainspoken review of the last few years that emphasizes how false narratives can calcify and go unchallenged when people abdicate their civic duty and their vote.
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The kind of authenticity that Bruce Watson has fostered in his various labels is based in plainspoken communication and unfiltered artistic testimony; theoretically, gospel will fit right in.
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Bonnie Raitt "The Ones We Couldn't Be" (Redwing) In a plainspoken ballad that goes straight to the heart, Ms. Raitt distills an essence of grown-up regret. 5.
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But even taking parts of those doesn't quite get you to the open-hearted and plainspoken style he's settled on—especially as its changed form slightly on Now Only.
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What he's saying: The big picture: Powell, who is more plainspoken than his predecessors, has emphasized the importance of forthright communication since he took the helm of the Fed.
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"Brown was the plainspoken political outsider who resonated with blue-collar folks, but more specifically the kind of disaffected, white, blue-collar groups Trump has brought along," Franck said.
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Like many pioneers, Idibia is less a virtuoso than a brilliant synthesist, with a knack for drawing together far-flung influences to create songs that seem plainspoken and homegrown.
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It is deeply disturbing in its plainspoken and clueless banality, and tells you everything you need to know about why the crime of rape so frequently goes unpunished in America.
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But Cottrill, after her breakout video, released an EP called "diary 001," which included "Pretty Girl" and five other songs that employed saccharine synths and plainspoken lyrics about puppy love.
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Until quite recently, conditions were still "crap" for the country's top women players, the plainspoken De Vanna told Reuters, using a more profane term to describe her early playing days.
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Leave the posturing and peacocking to the politicians; this season, designers imagined men in cardigans, corduroys and plainspoken jackets, all in humble, modest tones: wren-brown, pigeon-gray, mushroom-white.
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"The President's tweets absolutely reaffirm the plainspoken truth: A self-made billionaire revolutionized reality TV and tapped into something magical that's happening in the hearts of this country," Miller said.
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As Ruy Castro notes in his extensive history of the genre, the latter piece combined samba-canção with the melodic style known as chorinho, which emphasizes plainspoken language and improvisational melodies.
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He takes over a fractured Republican Party and campaigns against the advice of consultants and politicians, flying his own plane around the country, offering plainspoken denunciations of interventionism and identity politics.
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But for the third album by her band Florist, Emily Alone, she left her bandmates for the first time to record with little besides her guitar and plainspoken prose at hand.
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Before starting her musical career, Cardi B worked as a stripper and developed a following on Instagram, where she cut an acerbic figure as she delivered witty observations and plainspoken observations.
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"I would start listening in to the state Senate live feed on my break, and I would hear him and his fiery speeches, and just how he was plainspoken," Frye told BuzzFeed News.
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She was especially eager to see one headliner: Nouman Ali Khan, the Texas-based superstar preacher who's earned millions of fans — and amassed a fortune — through his plainspoken Qur'an lessons aimed at millennials.
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Speaking to AM 970 The Answer, Nauert told host John Catsimatidis that other world leaders aren't used to plainspoken speeches like the one Trump gave at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of Labour supporters were inspired by Corbyn's plainspoken populism, from former members driven away by Blair's hawkish foreign policy to young people taking part in politics for the first time.
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They are seemingly unaware the vast majority of Americans do not listen to vocally fried podcasts on subway rides from their pleasant Park Slope apartments, but plainspoken drive-time radio spoken from the heart.
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I knew it would be hard to pass, but it got easier after Hillary testified before the education committee and the chairman, a plainspoken farmer, said looks to me like we elected the wrong Clinton.
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Across the 11 songs that make up The Queen Who Stole the Sky, she sings and mumbles in this plainspoken way about the pain of existence and the way that eternal fulfillment is an illusion.
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It serves as a reminder of youthful political passion (I turned thirteen the day before Lyndon Johnson crushed the Arizona senator at the polls), and it pays tribute to the plainspoken candidate's libertarian anti-Communism.
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And Biden is already a star on social media, where millennials spend their time, retweeting made-up captions to pictures that show his "bromance" with Obama, and yukking it up over Biden's plainspoken and sometimes profane remarks.
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Hours of interviews and the close study of complex documents resulted in an intimate, devastating portrait of the victims of American military violence, a deeply textured yet plainspoken narrative with the unity and momentum of Greek tragedy.
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At 150 pages, the story is something like a heroic saga in miniature, recounting the life of a plainspoken farmhand whose pastoral solitude in the Austrian Alps is disrupted by the arrival of war, tourism and industry.
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His plainspoken style on the campaign trail, professed affinity for many of the other candidates, and easy jokes made him popular among Democratic voters, from his many online supporters to his own rivals on the debate stage.
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"Hall has long been placed in the Frostian tradition of the plainspoken rural poet," Billy Collins, another American poet laureate, wrote in The Washington Post in April 2006, two months before Mr. Hall himself was given the post.
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With just two weeks until the election, Trump is applying his 2016 playbook to his midterm messaging, turning to his uncanny ability to connect with voters in plainspoken, often emotional terms to drive his base to the polls.
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The white-collar creative class is having a collective Xanax moment about it all too, and Chipchase—via his profession, persona, and products, which all evince a kind of worldly-but-plainspoken, human-centered trustworthiness—is tapping into it.
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Phair's version of the song was plainspoken, bypassing the octave-leaping emotion in O'Connor's version (not to mention the take released by Prince, which featured a wrenching performance by dance belter Rosie Gaines, on his 1993 greatest-hits compilation).
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And that Monica could be such a plainspoken and open and honest character without any embarrassment — that could just take Fran's breath away and allow her to think, Oh my; all these private thoughts I've had, they're perfectly reasonable.
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There may have been a wistfulness in the music as she sang the words "holding nothing back like it's our last dance," but they also carried a hint of prophecy: Dua Lipa's putting herself out there with plainspoken appeal.
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As restaurant desserts have become simpler and homier — olive-oil cake, anything with chocolate — once plainspoken baked goods have turned rococo, offering an aura of luxury, enhanced by how difficult they are to procure before selling out each morning.
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" The purposefully plainspoken quality of the writing reinforces both a poetics and a politics of the everyday — in a world in which so many people and species have become disposable — as Sigler unravels its various formalities, its "mannequin disposition.
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Matt Czuchry ("The Good Wife") is the resident of the title, Dr. Conrad Hawkins, an abrasive but committed doctor who happens to be having a complicated relationship with Nic Nevin ("Revenge's" Emily VanCamp), an equally stalwart, plainspoken nurse practitioner.
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But based on our collective experience in the realm of consumer tech, all of us at Mashable know that if you want unfiltered and plainspoken takes on virtually any kind of product, you hit up the real experts: online reviewers.
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And while they did not make any substantive changes to his statement on the floor this morning, they did try to have McConnell phrase it in a more plainspoken, direct and real manner, to be more convincing to the Democrats.
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It's Hard To Have Hope tackles class privilege, wage theft, violent misogyny, feminism, reproductive freedom, "designer" pet breeds, and the endemic problem of sexual assault at shows, with plainspoken lyrics that hit hard and fast in vocalist Serena Cherry's rough-edged roar.
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Sullivan has won high praise throughout the department since taking office in May for his plainspoken style and efforts to reach out to staff, many of whom are anxious about their future in the face of Tillerson's plans to restructure the department.
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The song's rhymes are schematically perfect ("These days I sit on cornerstones / and count the time in quarter tones / 'til ten / Please don't confront me with my failures / I had not forgotten them") and the lyrics, despite being plainspoken, are very moving.
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The real-life story is amazing, and Gibson provides suitable excitement to Doss' climactic rescue mission, but as empathetic as Garfield is portraying a plainspoken guy who just wanted to do good for others, Hacksaw Ridge doesn't really illuminate the man behind the heroism.
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Only the second woman in American history to have had a husband and a son elected President (Abigail Adams was the first), Bush was seen as a plainspoken public figure who was instantly recognizable with her signature white hair and pearl necklaces and earrings.
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It feels relevant to Musgraves' situation, as she's been often compared to Lynn for her progressive lyrics and plainspoken, down-home girl who likes to rock sequins on the stage vibe (not to mention the fact that they're both brunettes, which is, oddly, rare in country music).
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Latest election results Trump's supporters embraced his plainspoken style, assault on political correctness and vow to crush what he portrayed in the final days of his campaign as a corrupt, globalized elite -- epitomized by the Clintons -- that he claimed conspired to keep hard-working Americans down.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Fed Chair Jerome Powell's hope for a more plainspoken approach to his job may have landed him in hot water with markets and require more "nuance" going forward, a former top Fed official said on Thursday in a critique of the current U.S. central bank.
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Fortunately, he brought help with him in the form of government health experts Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, who fielded reporters' questions in the Rose Garden appearance and offered plainspoken facts about the nature of the pandemic and how public health measures can help.
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We were quickly beguiled by its languid charm, and we recalled the grace notes of Greenwich Village and Chelsea in a compact town that has a dozen art galleries and craft shops, and plainspoken restaurants that let you feel like you are dining in your grandmother's kitchen.
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The same can be said about Salle and Morley, from whom Rosenthal has chosen uncharacteristically plainspoken works, especially from Salle, who contributes a diptych comprising two monochromatic panels, one deep blue and the other amber, each adorned with a female nude rendered in gray acrylic washes.
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Intuit's 2012 SEC filing was a bit more plainspoken about the potential outcome: "The risk of federal and state taxing authorities developing software or other systems to facilitate tax returns preparation and electronic filing at no charge to taxpayers... may cause us to lose customers and revenue," it said.
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The seniors who witnessed Warmbier's plainspoken and heartfelt oration recoiled years later when they saw the news photos of their old friend weeping during what North Korea called a trial and when they saw images of him being carried off of a plane while in the vegetative state.
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I doubt that this is anything the artist intended, but there can be an argument made that the costumes worn by his characters wouldn't be out of place in Stagecoach (1939) or The Searchers (1956), and that his foursquare compositions and plainspoken renderings can be seen as correlatives to Ford's straightforward blocking and unfussy camerawork.
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This may sound like a slippery, even specious distinction, but I think it's essential to piecing together the blunt authority of the tape paintings — objects made from unapologetically non-art materials (a practice she has continued with experiments in steel, slate, Rust-Oleum, stone, and cement-block walls, among other supports and mediums) with plainspoken directness.
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Revered by the other heteronyms as their "Master," he wrote plainspoken poems that eschew abstract thought and cleave to the natural world, in an almost Zen spirit of wisdom: I thank God I'm not good But have the natural egoism of flowers And rivers that follow their path Unwittingly preoccupied With only their flowering and their flowing.
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From there, Koenig introduces each of the main players in depth: Anna herself, belligerent and no-nonsense but with a wry sense of irony about her fate; Russ, her plainspoken attorney, who's baffled by the prosecutor's insistence on pursuing the case; the prosecutor, Jennifer, who's offended by what she deems to be Russ's patronizing attitude toward her as a younger female colleague.
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Trump supporters had objected when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz endorsed then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, and the president-elect has slammed the chain's plainspoken, non-religious holiday cups, suggesting a boycott last year.
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It's not totally clear yet where R&B might head next in this more laid-back, plainspoken, international future—perhaps it's silly to even paint it as a sea change—but the crop of talent on display yesterday in Austin, divorced from both the strictness of pop overproduction and the artsy pretension that so often surrounds buzzy acts, felt like an exciting glimpse of some state of evolution.
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Their plainspoken titles: Turiya Sings (1982), Divine Songs (1987), Infinite Chants (1990), Glorious Chants (1995), and unpretentious word-processed artwork barely hinting at the extraordinary music they contained—traditional Hindu devotional chants, swirled through the vortex of Coltrane's musical incarnations, from the lush harp glissandos and Indian percussion she'd brought to spiritual jazz, to her earlier classical music studies and the Detroit gospel blues she'd grown up singing in church.
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His credential-chasing yielded a book of short stories, Palo Alto, a plainspoken and undistinguished set of accounts of middle class high school hijinks, adapted for the screen by Gia Coppola in 2013 with Franco as a lecherous high school teacher; and a chapbook of poems, Strongest of the Litter, about, among other things, Hollywood actors, including, presumably, himself: In fifty yearsMy sleep will be death,I'll go like the rest,But I'll have playedAll the games and all the roles.
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He would likely give anything to have the eloquence of Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 6900 points 2628 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters Buttigieg's former chief of staff to be sworn in as mayoral successor MORE, the plainspoken folksiness of Joe BidenJoe BidenPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 28503 points 22020 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump 2020 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters MORE or the fire of Bernie Sanders.
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If a person wants to know more about Walter Benjamin, she can listen to an episode of "Thinking Allowed," a BBC Radio 21 show in which Laurie Taylor, a British sociologist, renders Benjamin's work in plainspoken language; or download the National Gallery of Art's podcast, in which the Princeton art historian Hal Foster delivers a Mellon lecture about him; or find the Clocktower podcast, dedicated to preserving archival audio, which offers recordings of several radio scripts, for children, that Benjamin wrote in the nineteen-thirties; or search out an episode of "Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person," a left-leaning podcast, hosted by Jeremy Salmon, that features an off-the-cuff roundtable about Benjamin—"he's one of the Frankfurt School guys, from what I understand"—in the context of contemporary politics and culture.
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While it's been a pleasure watching Nate Diaz come out from under the shadow of his big brother these last 18 months and become a full-fledged "needle-moving" star in his own right, as clever and subtle and plainspoken in his way as Nick when it comes to media philosophy and the art of negotiation, the return of Nick Diaz is a cause for celebration because it means the return of MMA's one true loyal opposition—a man for whom fighting is so deep down in the blood that he even fights against fighting and against the clichéd moorings and uncritical athlete pabulum that hold fighting up: that fighters must fight, that winning a belt validates a fighter's existence, that a fighter without the desire to hurt others in his heart is no fighter at all.
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