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But in this case, he appears to be playing it straight.
The LameStream Media and their Democrat partner should start playing it straight.
The LameStream Media and their Democrat..... ....partner should start playing it straight.
For several years America has complained that Russia is not playing it straight.
Several public health advocates say EPA isn't playing it straight with the public.
They're put up by the other side, and you think it's like playing it straight?
The rest of the time, she was relegated to bit parts and playing it straight. 3.
It's this fake documentary style, where you're not winking at the camera, you're playing it straight.
At some point, having filmed this meta romcom scene, Gerwig was asked to consider playing it straight.
"A lot of them are fans of astrology, but they know we're not playing it straight," he said.
But the boss admonished me that we are here to elucidate, not obfuscate, so I'm playing it straight.
This bill lets Republicans in Congress pretend they were playing it straight with the American people the whole time.
My friends to this day, they taught me much about playing it straight and following the factswherever they may lead.
Rather than one of them always playing it straight and the other handling the jokes, they took turns being the straight man.
"Vigilant subjectivity" is what's required, and playing it straight — presenting all the information and allowing the reader to make the final judgment.
The formal ideas, wrangled from improvised splashes of pigment, confound abstract flatness with spatial illusion, simultaneously playing it straight and fooling the eye.
After five years of playing it straight, Mathew came to the slow realization that the approach dictated to him wasn't going to work.
Yet playing it straight does not preclude adding value with journalistic judgment — such as, in extreme cases, calling out a lie when we see it.
THERE'S ALWAYS the option of playing it straight and declaring illicit bitcoin to a government authority with the hope they simply won't do any checking.
" He surprises himself by playing it "straight and from the heart, as he was claiming Southern soil, or at least recognizing his blood in it.
The show, which wasn't too big on playing it straight, also donned a snazzy new title for season two—Atlanta Robbin' Season, whatever that means.
"Thank you @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell for understanding the Democrats game of not playing it straight on the ridiculous Witch Hunt Hoax in the Senate," Trump wrote.
Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, said he was playing it "straight and narrow right now" on whether he was leaning in favor of the nuclear option or against it.
Vinny Lingham, Civic's co-founder and CEO, said the company is playing it straight and hired law firm Perkins Coie to try and stay out of the legal gray area.
Tim Scott, (South Carolina), told reporters on 23/229/33 he was playing it "straight and narrow right now" on whether he was leaning in favor of the nuclear option or against it.
Zuck isn't exactly known for playing it straight in his public statements, so this is the closest you'll see to a no-bullshit dig at a fellow billionaire who fucked his shit up.
There aren't that many slow jams out there from the perspective of an LGBT artist, especially from one this visible, so even though this song sounds like something playing it straight, it's definitely not.
Most clearly don't understand his music or his persona, and as they earnestly try to fit him into their Interviewing 101 boxes, he underscores news-media absurdities merely by playing it straight rather than bursting out laughing.
But I'm the kind of person who always used to cheat on Choose Your Own Adventure book, playing it straight the first few run-throughs, then finally just flipping through the books to see all the endings I missed.
Although every character, including Chase's mom, who is pursuing her "Year of Yes," gets shading as the season goes on, the strongest story traces Cary's dawning recognition of just how warped he's been by years of playing it straight.
Ariel Winter may be best known for playing it straight as the overachieving middle child Alex Dunphy on Modern Family, but that doesn't mean she's afraid of dramatically changing her look in real life — or for the big screen.
Cernovich said Kelly's move, though, could be seen as a workflow improvement, because it is his understanding that the chief of staff is playing it straight — avoiding playing favorites, and just seeking to control the flow of information in general.
Some of the signs are not put up by people that love Donald Trump they're put up by the other side and you think it's playing it straight, no, some of the signs and anger is caused by the other side.
"I believe to my core that there's only one right way to do this job, and that is with strict independence, by the book, playing it straight, faithful to the Constitution, faithful to our laws and faithful to the best practices of the institution," Wray said.
Sternum-shattering drum production might not seem like the clearest way to say "We Wish You Happiness!" but in the constant locomotion of tracks like "Rostokino Acid" by the Russian producer Buttechno—usually a mutant of sorts but here playing it straight—there is some calm and quietude.
The back half of this album is slightly less ambitious than the first, though even when Ms. Morris is playing it straight, she's strong, be it on the slow ticktock R&B country of "How It's Done," the centrist pop of "Just Another Thing" or "Once," with gospel and rock flourishes.
It's telling that, for all its stylistic quirks, the show is at its best when it's playing it straight: the fourth episode, which tells twin stories of a bank heist and a couple's desperate escape from a concentration camp, is among the best of the bunch and is delivered in a simple fashion.
Starring Julianne Moore as Gloria, a divorced woman in her 50s who spends her days playing it straight at the office, and her nights moonlighting as the heir to Meryl Streep's dancing queen crown, Gloria Bell takes the action to Los Angeles ("Where they play the right music / Getting in the swing / You come to look for a king").
On Wednesday morning, hours after the former Trump campaign manager's chaotic and hyper-partisan testimony before the House Judiciary Committee ended with him admitting, under sharp questioning from committee Democrats' counsel, to not playing it straight with the media regarding his involvement in President Donald Trump's efforts to curtail the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump and Russia, both Fox & Friends and CNN booked Lewandowski for interviews.
This is also the first dating show featuring non- heterosexual male contestants since Bravo's Boy Meets Boy and Fox's Playing It Straight.
Zoe Kristi Hardman (born 16 November 1982 in Kent, England) is a British television presenter and actress. She first appeared on TV in Channel 4's reality game show Playing It Straight in 2005.
Brian shared the 2005 RTS Television Award with Jamie Forsyth for Best Music – Original Title Music for "Playing It Straight". At the 2014 National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers (NAVGTR) awards, Beacock was nominated for Performance in a Comedy, Supporting for his work on Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
But a good lawyer playing by the rules, playing it straight makes a good case, and the judge is merely incidental, truly an impartial arbiter. A judge should just be there with a knowledge of the law and leave the lawyering to the lawyers."Doherty, William. "Good Lawyers Make Good Judges.
Jennifer Greenhill described the canvas in her book Playing It Straight: :"In it, a group of rural children collaborates to make a dilapidated stagecoach burst into action. Some serve as passengers, others as horses, still others as guides to the imaginary landscapes of their minds." Johnson painted the canvas at his studio in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It has been described as his most genial work.
He became the third member of the Jury of Seven. Following James's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Playing It Straight" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests attempted to roll a bowling ball down a line for the longest length, with the HouseGuest who makes it farthest being the winner. Howie was the winner of the competition, making him the first person to win Head of Household twice this season.
Mr Gay 2001, Carl Austin-Behan, became the 119th Lord Mayor of Manchester in 2016, serving until 2017. Mr Gay UK 2003, Jarrold Batchelor, went on to appear in the Channel 4 reality series, The Games. In 2006, police officer Mark Carter made national headlines when he won the competition.< Mr Gay UK 1998, Ben Harris, became the winner of the Channel 4 show Playing It Straight in 2004.
Like her mother, Kantner has, over the years, struggled with alcoholism.Baker 1996, Brown 2000, Dodd 1996, Kantner 2008 She has been sober since about 1998. She contributed a section to the book Playing It Straight by David Dodd, alongside her mother and other recovering substance abusers, such as Dennis Hopper, Steven Tyler and Ozzy Osbourne. In 1999, she married a Los Angeles dentist, Jamie Azdair, although the couple divorced in 2006.
Martin Starger said they were doing the film because "Heroes are needed today more than ever... We're playing it straight. This isn't a spoof or a satire."The Movie Industry Offers Comic Relief For Your Headaches: Coming Films to Star Popeye, Flash Gordon and Tarzan; Sign of Creative Drought? The Movie Industry Offers Comic Relief For Your Headaches By EARL C. GOTTSCHALK JR. Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
From 2011 to 2014 she wrote a column for Company, the women's monthly magazine. In January 2012, Jamil replaced June Sarpong as the host of the reality show Playing It Straight. In June 2012, Jamil collaborated with Very to debut her first fashion collection. At the end of 2012 Jamil became the radio host of The Official Chart, and was co-host of The Official Chart Update alongside Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1.
John Landis grew up near Bernstein, and befriended him through his children. Years later, he requested that Bernstein compose the music for National Lampoon's Animal House, over the studio's objections. He explained to Bernstein that he thought that Bernstein's score, playing it straight as if the comedic Delta frat characters were actual heroes, would emphasize the comedy further. The opening theme to the movie is based upon a slight inversion of a secondary theme from Brahms's Academic Festival Overture.
In 2012, H&C; commissioned the series Getting to Greenwich, an 8-part series profiling rider contenders for London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. H&C; also commissioned Dean Dibsdall: Model Farrier, a single film about the winner of E4's Playing It Straight 2012. H&C; produced in-house "Carl and Charlotte: Dressage Superstars" a 2-part series about top British Dressage riders, Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin. In 2016, H&C; acquired the syndicated series Walks Around Britain, featuring seasons one & two.
Playing It Straight is a 2004 American reality show in which one woman spent time on a ranch with a group of men in an attempt to discern which of them were gay and which of them were straight. All of the gay men pretended to be straight. The woman went on individual dates with the men, in addition to engaging in group activities with them. Over the course of the episodes, she voted to eliminate the men she believed to be gay.
Garonzi began her Australian TV career on Nickelodeon, hosting many TV shows on the network and was a co-host the night of the first ever Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards. She starred as Brie in the Australian feature film You and Your Stupid Mate. Garonzi hosted the live to air program The Mint on GTV Channel 9 until its cancellation. She hosted numerous reality shows on Australian Network TV and repeats of Playing It Straight are being aired on Foxtel on the TV network Arena.
The song was released as a single and became a hit, reaching number 26 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1976.EveryHit.com The band even appeared on Top of the Pops to perform the song. Reggae infuses most of the rest of the album, although Can experiments with rhythm and instrumentation, rather than playing it straight. This is exemplified on "Cascade Waltz", which combines a reggae beat with a waltz, and on "Laugh Till You Cry, Live Till You Die", which features guitarist Karoli playing the Turkic bağlama.
A version of Jethro Burns leading the house band on the Mike Douglas Show, playing "Take the A Train," is available on YouTube. Atkins produced many of their later RCA albums including two instrumental jazz efforts: Playing It Straight and It Ain't Necessarily Square. The Reinhardt style continued to influence the duo's work until Haynes' death from a heart attack in 1971. A final album for RCA, The Far-Out World of Homer and Jethro, followed in 1972 and the sleeve included a message from Burns playing tribute to Haynes.
The ten songs on Noise Floor are marked by frayed guitar textures, frequent fluid time changes, and a female voice filtered through the blow hole of a flute, for a warped alien effect that Chrome exploited so well. Sometimes Morsel seem to be playing it straight, even approaching a conventional low-key, indie-rock beauty. But then they'll abruptly scrunch up the rhythm, play crazy staccato riffs, pause unexpectedly, sing like Satan's sister . . . those kinds of things (Alternative Press August 1994).” Johnny Pecorelli said “Morsel's Steve Albini-produced debut, Noise Floor, should raise a few eyebrows itself.
Natalie Garonzi is an Australian actress, writer, comedian and TV presenter. She worked both nationally and internationally as a model for many years appearing in campaigns and on catwalks around the globe for the likes of Chanel, Armani and Vera Wang and international publications like Elle Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Grazia. She then began her television career on Nickelodeon Australia, where she appeared on Saturday Nick Television and Sarvo. She has also presented numerous other television shows, including Wedding Switch as well as the Australian version of the US series of Playing It Straight and X Factor Australia on the Seven Network.
On May 26, within hours of setting up the meeting, Fox announced that the special had been pulled from the schedule. Fox publicly attributed the decision to "creative issues" but an anonymous source inside Fox said that GLAAD's intervention was welcomed following the failure of the network's earlier gay-themed reality program, Playing It Straight. In addition to the program's content, Fox also received criticism for its promotional material, including describing the gay judges as a "jury of their queers". The network later apologized for its "failed attempt at humor" that was "ill-chosen and inappropriate".
After leaving Pat, Mike heads on over to the East Side where William lived and meets superintendent John Vilecks and the local Father who said that William was playing it straight and left a will to take care of the kid. William's only visitor was fellow dock worker Mel Hooker. Mike heads on over to Riverside Drive, the site of the robbery to meet Marsha Lee an ex-Hollywood actress who was hurt in the robbery. Marsha thinks the robbery was really planned for the apartment above hers since she had nothing of real value to steal.
In preview of the episode, Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Sun-Times said: "If you're going to book a former cast member from Good Times as a guest for your sitcom, do yourself a favor and try getting Jimmie Walker, John Amos or Ja'net Dubois before settling for Janet Jackson." Scott D. Pierce of Deseret News reported that Jackson's appearance "takes the focus off the regular characters" while Mark Harris of Entertainment Weekly commented that Jackson's guest spot "was an all-time low". Gary Susman of Entertainment Weekly was complimentary towards Jackson, concluding that she was "all business, playing it straight" in the episode. He reported that "she makes a fabulous entrance and departs with her dignity intact".
Projects in development include a sitcom and a programme on climate change. In recent years, Sarpong has presented other series, including Your Face or Mine?, a game show co-hosted with Jimmy Carr for E4; Dirty Laundry, an urban talk-show that was an original idea of Sarpong's; Playing It Straight, a dating game-show filmed in Mexico for Channel 4, and Sarpong has presented the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party and the Party In The Park. She is a regular at the MOBO Awards and presented them for three years in a row. She has also appeared on BBC Television's Question Time, Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats, and BBC's Have I Got News for You.
Still, "Crooked Smile" with special guests TLC is a genuine, mature step in the right direction and will have no trouble reaching vintage age. A handful of other numbers carry that same weight, making Born Sinner a daring step forward for Cole and an exciting attempt at mastering Jay's Blueprint style." Ted Scheinman of Slant Magazine said, "Here's the only real problem with Born Sinner: Cole's production work is elegant, but he's first and foremost a words guy, and when you're competing with the lushness of Kendrick Lamar (who makes a spooky appearance on "Forbidden Fruit") or the preening, infectious weirdness of Kanye, playing it straight is probably not sexy enough. Born Sinner doesn't match the cohesive satisfactions of Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, though it boasts better writing.

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