Around her, dozens of crew members prepared for what should have been a straightforward scene in "Sex and the City," the movie.
Posted on Monday to Ugarit News, an activist YouTube channel, and to the YouTube channel of Syrian Days of Rage, an activist group, the accompanying text describes a straightforward scene: "Syrian forces open fire on students".
It's a fairly simple, straightforward scene, one that in its implications -- think of all the bills introduced and fought by Big Tobacco -- says a great deal about how this country is run, by whom and for whom.
It's a mix of straightforward gags, scenes from his childhood and the President Obama impression that sparked last year's rumors that Mr. Glover would join "Saturday Night Live".
This device is melded swiftly and smoothly with straightforward dramatic scenes covering a Dickensian variety of events, from commonplace to outrageously coincidental, bland to portentous, dangerous and sexy to homey and aw-shucks.
The film alternates straightforward tourist scenes and jerky, distracted hand-held-camera shots, and it is accompanied by a trancelike recorded monologue that dwells on an unnamed illness picked up en route.
I would do straightforward sex scenes and then find out later that they ended up with titles that were very racist.
What had been a relatively straightforward accident scene now became something more complicated: a search for a lost person.
Vincent Feldman's "Rainbow," which will be going to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is an impressively large silver print that may look like a manipulated image but is a straightforward architectural scene.
Presented were Nicolas Joel's straightforward street scene from Revolutionary Paris, Franco Zeffirelli's bone-dry bullring exterior in Seville and Mr. Zeffirelli's Las Vegas vision of mythical oriental splendor, complete with descending golden sprinkles at the end.
