Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viewer as Voyeur. There are those who see Kienholz's 47 collected works as an album of brilliant satire; others dig him as a kind of beat Savonarola; some consider him a blatant pornographer. The show, in fact, almost did not come off. County officials threatened until opening night to ban it, held off only in the face of a firm trustee and museum-staff declaration that "a great museum, like a great library, acquires, displays and studies, but does not pass judgment; only society, present and future, can do that...
...home, too, he was running into trouble. Shortages of such basic items as soap and matches were felt in every home, and most Ghanaians deeply resented his government's blatant corruption. At least five attempts have been made to assassinate him. Nkrumah's answer was to crack down even further, increase his security guard-and to retreat behind the four walls of his palace. He reportedly took to wearing a bullet-proof vest, nervously kept five bullet-proof Rolls-Royces ready to carry him around Accra, waiting until the last minute to choose the one he would ride...
...bumbling, ineffectual way Dr. Illia has been running things. He has done little to check what many officers regard as a dangerous infiltration of Castroites in key labor unions, or to control the cost of living, which has risen 63% over the past two years. Last week, in blatant defiance of the government's 15% wage-boost guideline for public employees, the Peronista-controlled Light and Power Workers' Union forced the state-owned utility to grant its 49,000 members a 32% raise...
...another key point, the granting of tenure, the university has accepted the long-standing guidelines set out by the American Association of University Professors. These rules protect tenured professors from dismissal for all but the most blatant violations of common propriety, and they also limit the time that a junior faculty member will be allowed the serve at the school in an untenured position. But here again the board the trustees controls the final decision whether or not to grant tenure still is theirs...
...explanations, Gaullist newspapers wondered innocently if the American CIA might not have pulled the whole operation in order to eliminate a leftist, and at the same time embarrass De Gaulle. The fact remains that four of the five persons so far in custody for the kidnaping are Frenchmen. That blatant bit of embarrassment must have struck someone in the Elysee Palace last week, for suddenly Paris began "wondering" if Ben Barka was really dead. After all, his body has yet to turn...