Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT IS REMARKABLE about this film is that director Zale Dalen manages to sour this entire setting without being too blatant about it. This is Dalen's first feature and it shows--there is the slightest hint of home-movie about this film in the camera placings and the colors. But the pacing is superb and an imaginative use of soundtrack keeps you there. In fact, the home-movie quality--the slight hint of innocence about the film, the complete lack of slickness--actually helps the film. The whole thing looks innocent enough, but what you're seeing is awful...
...interest in seeing Piñerua elected, meanwhile managed to get around a law barring presidential involvement in an election by hitting the hustings on what were billed as "administrative tours." His government spent $15 million touting its achievements and otherwise burnishing its image. To critics of that blatant electioneering, Pérez argued: "The government's record is involved in the campaign...
...independent pursuit of learning" at the Kennedy School. His full statement reveals, however, the fundamental truth--Dean Allison believes that the well-being of Harvard University is dependent on contributions frequently earned in immoral ways. One does not have to be a university professor of semantics to recognize the blatant contradiction in Dean Allison's remark...
...view, the element of choice is crucial. A woman who chooses to model for the magazine and is adequately compensated cannot legitimately be considered "exploited." For that reason, we find the majority's cries of exploitation and oppression illogical, and fear they are simply a blatant appeal to emotion...
...seriously expects that the closer IRS scrutiny or the latest tax law will permanently eliminate the more blatant dodges. Tax advisers are already at work figuring out ways to beat the tax code and, given its ramshackle structure, they are certain to find new loopholes...