Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignorant, blatant and irrational bigotry displayed by white Mississippians during the freedom march [July 1] is a tragic disgrace to everyone who supports the ideals on which the U.S. was founded. The peals of shock ringing out across this country will soon become the death knell of the white reactionary movement in Mississippi...
...Torn Curtain ultimately fails because the conflicts between Newman and Andrews are neatly resolved at the halfway mark. Once Newman has his formula, Torn Curtain becomes blatant chase melodrama. There is no more characterization and the emphasis switches from Newman and Andrews to the supporting characters involved in the escape from East Berlin: the leader of the Resistance bus, a Polish ex-countess with problems, a villainous ballerina...
...play has its problems. Strindberg was interested in dramatic conflict and theatrical tension, not in plot, and his plays have a loose form and pay little attention to careful characterization. Frequently he would resort to conventional melodrama. A modern audience finds it difficult to accept a plot device as blatant as that of the hidden letter in the chiffonier's secret compartment. But Strindberg doesn't care that his plot device was awkwardly introduced. Once he has introduced it, it becomes the quickest means to a desired end, and he can forget about it, concentrating on its dramatic effects...
Chant D'Amour was not shown to the students of 4 because the staff deemed it irrelevant to the course. Its "blatant sexual imagery" (sic) was an additional complicating factor, though for the complaining student who visited the CRIMSON office in high dudgeon, this factor seems to have overridden any concern for the film's artistic merit or academic relevance. Would complaints have been forthcoming. I wonder, if showings of Cocteau's Orpheus or Kurosawa's Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail had been cancelled? The question of censorship, raised by the CRIMSON article, is not pertinent...
According to the two instructors who attended the pre-showing, the picture contained blatant sexual imagery. "If the film had only suggested eroticism instead of explicitly demonstrating it we would have allowed it," Arthur M. Friedman head section man, said last night...