Leave the metropolitan elite to their mocha lattes and talk to the Plain People of Britain and the picture is, as Harris points out, rather different.
They are ever the simple, plain, everyday people who see the need and set about to supply it.
Second, the White House needs to speak in plain language to the American people about what needs to be done, so it harnesses their legitimate anger and anxiety and continues to inspire their confidence and hope.
And telling good stories, it turns out, is more powerful than giving people the plain facts.
Lushan, where the quake struck, is home to 1.5 million people where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau.
The rising crime rate and the gruesome findings of mutilated and beheaded bodies in plain sight have made people angry and scared at the same time.
They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km (150 miles) from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.
The "hotties" security site HotCaptcha.com, for example, blends plain and exceptionally good-looking people from the Web site "Hot or Not" with a spam-defying secure password box--pick the good-looking people (something computers can't yet do) and you prove you're a person, not a spam software program.
And according to a story in The New York Times, even plain vanilla has people lining up to try liquid nitrogen ice cream.
Its lobby in Europe is much exercised by recent statements of Muwafaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, who makes it plain he wants the camp disbanded and its people sent abroad, mostly to Iran, whose rulers have become more vociferous in calling its fellow reigning Shias in Baghdad to send them back.
Mr. Smith also advises companies to ensure that people with motor disabilities can navigate websites without the use of a mouse, and to use plain language and a strong design to aid people with cognitive or intellectual disabilities.
The people I talked to said it is plain and simple: bacon.
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The smart people at News Corp. are being plain stupid, though, if they think they have weeks to get their bugs squashed.
And 50 percent of the things that we normal people firmly believe are just plain dead wrong.
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Though, to be fair, why not display in plain sight the lungs and other affected organs of those people whose lives have been shortened by coal- and oil-fired plants?
The consumerization of software meanwhile illustrates how people are just plain fed up with big company decision making, and they are opting instead to freelance their IT purchases.
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He twisted Buddhism to devise his "death doctrine" - teaching his followers that killing people would propel the victims' spirits to a higher plain.
Savile used his celebrity to "hide in plain sight" as he opportunistically preyed on the children and young people with whom he came into contact as he presented BBC children's show "Jim'll Fix It" and music show "Top of the Pops, " the report said.
Plain packaging is seen by campaigners as the next step in discouraging young people from taking up smoking.
What a lot of these people did to all of us in the first place is just plain criminal.
Tens of thousands died of hunger, torture, disease, or plain murder part of the Nazi killing machine that killed 6 million people.
People sensed that it was unworkable and just plain wrong, and the Democrats gleefully pounced on it.
People are still giving up and steps such as the display ban and plain packaging - if it happens - stop the industry making smoking attractive.
At peak times, up to 16 bullet trains an hour travel each way along the densely populated coastal plain that is home to over half of Japan's 128m people.
Investigative reporter and author Steve Silberman said he hopes that as "same-sex" marriage becomes plain old "marriage, " people who may have been resistant to the idea will realize that there's no fundamental difference.
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The government is also due to begin a public consultation before the end of the year on whether to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes in order to lessen their marketing appeal to young people, help make health warnings more effective and help reduce the number of smokers.
To people who paid into the program for their entire lives, it is a cut -- plain and simple.
Sectarian hatred now threatens the unity of a people that in my dad's day were proud and eager to be just plain Iraqis.
The Plain Dealer newspaper reported Friday that Cleveland police removed Knight's name from an FBI database of missing people 15 months after her family reported her missing.
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