Mostly, though, there's payoff to those big, straightforward flavors: the only quotation marks on the menu, thank goodness, are around "Caesar," and they're not even needed, because the garlic-anchovy dressing on the salad was spot on, an invigorating saline embrace to which even the heartiest lettuces can only succumb.
They specialize in big, straightforward, slightly whiny rock songs; they aren't particularly cool, loud, raucous or — to say the least — punk.
But the big story is straightforward.
There were relatively faithful versions of the big hits and fondly straightforward renditions of other songs, like Bobby Bare Jr.'s performances of heart tuggers like "This Guitar Is for Sale" and "The Things I Didn't Say".
Now Sotheby's is planning to auction what it says is Wilson's master copy of the working draft of "Alcoholics Anonymous," the Big Book's disarmingly straightforward official title.
But the transition to the big league may not be straightforward.
Dirk Schrade, their second rider to jump, put in a clear round that made the big and beautiful course look straightforward.
The apparatus itself seems pretty straightforward: thread the big piece through your belt and attach the little piece to your camera's tripod mount.
But with the Big Four all faced with seemingly straightforward domestic outings, the spotlight instead falls on those sides struggling at the other end of the table.
One of them is called Ting, which has made a mission of doing business in a more straightforward way than the big guys.
