Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewer does not already sympathize with Joslin and his lover, he will after being handed some blatant one-liners by Joslin's parents. Father, for example, bemoaning his son's estate, says, "When you get mixed up with the arty people...ech...that's it." He himself admires the "tough-guy" image. Mother says she is disappointed he will not have a typical family life, so she doesn't give him the land in the country should would otherwise have given...
...unclear whether Mr. Aquino will actually be executed, since the Marcos regime has officially executed only one man, a narcotics dealer, since martial law was imposed, although others have disappeared. But even if Mr. Aquino is not executed, his case is the most striking example of Marcos's blatant attempts to silence, or at least discredit, his political opponents...
...year-old son, Major Anastasio Somoza III '73 and Somoza's brother-in-law and ambassador to Washington, Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, are reportedly the designated heirs to the throne. Sources in Nicaragua say that key civilian and military elements within the regime agree with the opposition that such blatant continuation of family rule cannot be allowed...
...handicap to Udall's position that virtue and vig or in newspapering do not turn solely on whether a paper is in local or absentee hands. Some individually owned pa pers, like William Loeb's Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, are more noted for oldfashioned, blatant, goofy and mean-spirited eccentricity than any chain paper. Yet ideally a good independently owned paper with deep roots in its community is best for that community. That is Udall's argument. A lot of editors are properly leery about political intrusion in their business, but the trend toward concentrated ownership...
...tired, dirty, washed-out and disillusioning reality becomes a frequently tedious chronicle of flatulent, hemmorhoidal and unnecessarily repulsive dreariness. The author uses a bludgeon when a tap on the shoulder would suffice--and heavy-handedness goes beyond his unsubtle attempts to expose the spy game. Le Carre's blatant symbolism, his clumsy equation of the declining British Empire with its near-broken Secret Service, borders on the embarrassing. The equation fails not, of course, because it isn't accurate, but because it is so obvious and, in the end, so trivial. The author would be well advised to leave...