The authors' real forte is straightforward biography, and the second half of the story proves as interesting as the first.

Neither hagiography nor pathography, it is, you feel, the thoroughly respectful and straightforward biography its honest, modest, intensely private subject would have wanted.

He eschews the straightforward biographies the dictionary re-establishes.

The cards typically show a drawing or painting of a criminal on one side, along with a short, straightforward biography of the criminal.

Yet in so doing, they forge a bond with the lives under examination seldom achieved in more straightforward biographies.

At times the profile of Milo is just as flat as a straightforward biography, but it always picks up.

Instead of a straightforward biography, the film jumps abruptly back and forth in time and place, with little regard to consistency of tone.

As a straightforward biography, however, it provides an altogether engaging account of Turgenev's life and times.

"I assure you," he replied, smiling, "it is straightforward biography."

It is a decided rarity -a half-hour format devoted not to a sitcom but to straightforward biography.