Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands aren't met," Ritt has made a movie about places disenchantment hasn't reached...because unions aren't allowed. Norma Rae sharply reminds us that yes, there places where people work for substandard wages and who are forbidden to unionize. The scenes in the textile mill lack the blatant horror of coal mining but instead, they capture the numbing, back-breaking monotony which is just as lethal to the spirit and body. Norma's struggle to organize her factory has an innocent vigor against which Ritt plays off the smugness surrounding the union officials who come down to confer...
...injury to more insult, the extracurricular activities that the Third World people engage in slip your narrow-minded Western perspective as being the most 'barbaric' things that a person would do in Western civilization. You then go on to make a farce out of the hundreds of years of blatant discrimination suffered by the people of the Third World by placing us on the same level as, and thus equating us with freaks and outcasts...
...that "we go back to some of those good old dirty days when we had an arsenal of things that we used to do around the world and we used to organize our allies and get them to help us out. We don't have to do anything blatant." At another point, Helms said: "We have friends; there are operations...
...border war with India. Besides a possible Soviet retaliation that could come at any time, China already has suffered a political setback in world eyes. The Japanese, who joined them in decrying "hegemony" when they signed a treaty with Peking last year, were upset that China was practicing such blatant hegemony of its own. Some American policymakers took grim satisfaction at the ironic spectacle of five Communist countries?the Soviet Union, China, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos?caught in a bloody family feud. But there is not much to be satisfied about. China's shining image as a new friend...
Neighborhood paraphernalia dealers blossomed as fast as the drug culture, flowering on corners across the nation with a wide assortment of cigarette rolling papers, small pipes, cocaine spoons, psychedelic lights and other legal appurtenances for high living. But for many officials,the head shops serve as a too-blatant reminder of the losing battle against drugs...