Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty girl and the slogan did what they were meant to do--they sold makeup to women who were in the market themselves. The sexual revolution drastically changed the terms of the sales; sex became more blatant and the advertising industry naturally kept pace. Now that a kiss usually promises more than a kiss, we have advertisements for women's clothing that wink slyly, "What to wear on Sunday when you won't be home till Monday," and underwear ads that murmur, "You owe it to your audience." And we have a new movie about a top fashion model...
...other major candidates, Senator Jackson and Representative Udall, have not been entirely clean on this issue--both have on occasion made statements similar to those Carter made at South Bend, and Jackson's blatant pitch for ant-busing votes in Boston was particularly deplorable. But it is Carter who has carefully but deliberately injected the race issue into the current campaign, and it would be wrong to fail to distinguish between him and the other candidates on this question...
...director of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM), said last week. he added that never before in the college's history had tenure been denied to a candidate who had received the recommendation of all faculty committees. "Given this historical background," Roberts said, "the case looks like a blatant denial of tenure for political reasons...
...blatant politics of the Palme tax policy upsets many Swedes, however. Worried about a political backlash, Palme's tax officials last week insisted that the 101.2% maximum was an "accident," and it was announced that a "provisional tax revision" was under study. Meanwhile, Bergman has angrily canceled all his film and theater projects in Sweden. Some tax experts are suggesting another way for certain self-employed Swedes to cope: divorce. Swedish husbands, they advise, could divorce their wives, dispatch them abroad, then send them big tax-deductible allowances. Upon reaching retirement age, the couple could be joyfully reunited...
...separate nationality. Schecter, who is Jewish, says that he never felt the effects of anti-Semitism himself, although he knew that it existed. He noticed that the Soviets also practice the conventional American form of racism. "They are always complaining about our racism, but over there it's just blatant and open," he says. The Schecters made several friends in a special university for African students near their home, who frequently complained about the discrimination practiced against them. Russian women who dated black men were sometimes stoned in public, according to Schecter...