Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bouteflika used his position as president of the 29th General Assembly aggressively to support the tactics of the Third World bloc. He wrenched procedural issues in a way that prevented South Africa from taking its seat and limited Israel's participation in the Palestinian debate. Bouteflika's blatant disregard for the tradition of presidential impartiality was one cause of former U.S. Ambassador John Scali's warning last year that a "tyranny of the majority" of underdeveloped, often tiny nations in the U.N. threatened to undermine U.S. support of the organization...
...this state, is the Christian calendar; that its holidays are Christian holidays; that there is a Christian church in the heart of this university both recognized and supported by the university; that Judaism is outside of the university, neither recognized not supported by it; that this constitutes a blatant act of favoring one religion over another; and that this situation has had and continues to have a corrosive effect upon the religious devotion and cultural attachment of Jews in the university...
Writer-Director Richard Brooks made a western called The Professionals in 1966, a hearty, amusing enterprise full of pulp-magazine notions about honor under pressure. Bite the Bullet is made in blatant-indeed, often desperate -imitation of The Professionals, and the character Hackman plays is a virtual reincarnation of Robert Ryan's softspoken, steel-fisted horseman of the previous film. Instead of forming a ragtag commando unit, though, the heroes now make up a party of racers, heading over 700 miles of rugged territory for $2,000 in prize money...
THIS NEW sensationalism proceeds out of an assumption of boredom, which is why it is new, and not designed to be a grand old show. It's not just Cecil B. parting the Red Sea anymore--there's television's stamina to beat now--blatant images in a box day after day, 24-hour love, hate, anger and pain in a thousand ways. So you give the audience a strange brain (a devil-possessor)--lobotomize 'em. Or you carry them to a strange environment (perhaps trash the one you've got and see how they run)--show 'em anything...
...publication of the Freshman Housing Poll, prior to the deadline for filing house applications, seems to me to have been both irresponsible journalism and a blatant disservice to the freshman class...