If Talulla doesn't yank our emotional heartstrings (she knows we're too smart for that), she forthrightly elucidates ugly situations that even she's afraid of, like the possibility she'll be raped while imprisoned ("There was no kind of rape there wasn't a rapist for") or her repugnant temptation to kill and consume a human baby.
"It could easily backfire and lead to a situation where the lesson coming out of this campaign is, 'Don't try and deal forthrightly with the American people on this issue when there isn't an immediate crisis.' " Polls suggest that voters are split.
So there is a corollary to this first precept: when we get it wrong, we correct ourselves as quickly and forthrightly as possible.
In his two days of testimony with the company's attorneys, plus another day with staff attorneys from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, North said that he answered forthrightly and proved that there were no dark secrets.
Instead, there are forthrightly appealing snacks like raw tuna on a wafer-thin pizza crust of gyoza skins run together through a pasta machine (a hit at Bond St). and that California classic, an irreverent version of tuna sushi in which the rice is flash-fried to the texture of a Tater Tot.
There were many good reasons not to run, and Smith itemized each forthrightly.
But she said she thought that because the article did not deal forthrightly enough with the economic disparity between Kuczynski and Hilling, it "got people thinking there was a kind of cluelessness about that".
"There are two things a woman can do in such a situation," she explains forthrightly, "accept it or shoot the man". Then, fixing the audience at the Music Box Theater with a look that is both elegant and defiant and perhaps a little mischievous, too, she explains what she did instead.
(6) Former spooks who convinced reporters that there was never any connection between Saddam's Iraqi regime and Osama bin Laden's terror network would forthrightly assert they were uninformed about the decade-long links that were revealed in the classified memo the Senate Intelligence Committee requested from Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
There's not a lot of mystery to the songs on "Living With War"; they make their points as forthrightly as possible.
