Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tapes down to what he feels is relevant to his needs, and arranges the segments in what would make the most natural order. Then, taking care to capture the "voice" of his subject, he transcribes the sessions into prose, and VOILA! ... the "As told to ..." book. And a blatant potboiler as well...
What is most irritating about Schaap's style is his blatant pandering to a narrow audience. One chapter entiled, "I Like My Girls Blond and My Johnnie Walker Red," is devoted to Namath, the stud, and one can just imagine the segment of America that fancies itself he-man. Schlitz-drinking, duck-shooting and hard-loving smugly saying, "Yeah, goddamn, Namath's one of US, Fcrissake...
...Institutional: Discrimination against gays is blatant. Homosexual relationships are illegal, and even if these laws are not regularly enforced, they encourage and enforce closet queencry. The bulk of the social work/psychiatric field looks upon homosexuality as a problem, and treats us as sick. Em players let it be known that our skills are acceptable only as long as our sexuality is hidden...
After the Lipman proposal had passed, the Independent Front asked for an amendment to change the central SMC slogan. "Bring All the G.I.'s Home Now." That sentiment, said a RYM speaker, is "blatant national chauvinism in that it concerns itself with American lives, and doesn't preclude the continued "Vietnamized" presence of the U.S. in Vietnam...
...progress and climax. But it doesn't do so continually, as a unity. Sentimental situations are instead set up and undercut. Moreover, the film is filled with strange changes, apparent lapses, in tone. Economical establishment of character alternates with incompetent dialogue and playing. Subtle implication gives way to blatant statements about the situation. Redford's and Clarke's performances and even Katherine Ross's, seem insecure and inconsistent...