"An Ill Father, a Life-or-Death Decision" (Cases, Jan . 26 described an all too common situation: the tendency to avoid the emotional upset associated with sharing straightforward end-of-life information.
It seems that the best efforts of the engineers and scientists involved are sometimes inadequate, and projects that once seemed straightforward end up being late or over-budget, or cancelled.
How this intelligent, straightforward film ended up on the network of "Megan Wants a Millionaire" and "Daisy of Love" is a mystery, but we should just be grateful to VH1 for broadcasting it.
The result, we now know, was that the number of "complicated'' deliveries – caesareans, forceps, ventouse – rose dramatically, and many mothers who could have had a straightforward births ended up having a dramatic, emergency intervention to get their now-distressed unborn child safely delivered.
According to Rabbi Schneerson, the shorter longer way to town, the path that looks straightforward but ends up blocked, is the Nike way.
Kershner's straightforward reporting ended, however, when she came to one of the poll's more disturbing findings - "that nearly half of Israeli Jews said that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel".
The best thing about Nine Dragons is the father-daughter focus – ample compensation for what's derivative and, bar the shock ending, excessively straightforward about its plotting.
There were no problems in the end and it was a straightforward finish".
Excepting that if something looks too straightforward, we may end up thinking it is of no interest.
