Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only Stallone's mother will forgive him for Paradise Alley. The movie has all the flaws of Rocky--the truisms, the sentimentality that could make a soap-opera addict squirm--and none of its strengths. The innocence has been replaced by a blatant attempt to cash in on Rocky's success. Rocky has gone Hollywood...
BAKSHI AND COMPANY must be blatant since they do not reach below the surface of the books to convey what Tolkien was really writing about: The books succeed, despite admittedly two-dimensional characterization and large doses of sword fightin' and horse ridin', because Tolkien subtly leads you into his world and somehow makes you care about what goes on there, makes you afraid of the evil which threatens it, and involves you in the adventures as if you were there. Bakshi's world is merely a cartoon, somehow you can't get around that whether you know the books...
...almost ignore its grossly offensive depiction of the Turkish people. It is not until the very end of his long review that Mr. Contreras finally refers, as an afterthought, to what is a major (if not the major) theme underlying the movie: A hatred of the Turkish nation so blatant that it borders on racism. Throughout the film, the audience is treated to a sequence of violent and disturbing scenes where the Turks feature heavily as a nation of brutes and loonies. So stark is this characterization that one waits in vain for the appearance of at least one half...
...Senator runs relatively non-racial campaigns--he's not comfortable with the role of "the black Senator" that has been thrust upon him. Only when he fell sharply in the polls in his race against Peabody in 1966 did he give a talk about "being black--it wasn't blatant but the liberals loved it," says Pettigrew, "they gave him a standing ovation and almost carried him off on their shoulders...
...wonders whether to be more surprised at the blatant hypocrisy of Strom Thurmond in going after the black vote in South Carolina [Oct. 16] now that they have some power, or the naivete of the black voters who intend to support a man who, for most of his public career, considered them a political pariah. If the blacks in South Carolina truly seek justice, let them begin by distinguishing, on election day, between true concern and absolute cynicism...