Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What started as a venturesome symbol, attacked as blatant commercialism by the Soviets when they boycotted the Summer Games, has become a national phenomenon, provoking an outpouring of good feeling for community and country. Flown to the U.S. in miner's lamps from Greece, the Olympic flame is being carried on a serpentine 82-day, 8,700-mile journey through 33 states to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The runners include more than 200 regulars (a team of experienced amateur runners sponsored by A T & T who form the core of the relay) and 3,500 local...
There is a certain set of guidelines that good journalists adhere to. They know that, before writing, they will have had to gather a specific amount of information in order to avoid blatant inaccuracies. It is highly unfortunate that in his most recent editorial ("Divestiture Follies," 5/10/84), Peter J. Howe should have forgotten these time-honored recommendations...
...participating, for whatever reasons, a nation serves the Olympics ideal of bringing the athletes and nations, of the world together Attempts at political or commercial exploitation, however blatant and conniving are always subordinate to the broader goals and ideals of the Games. In the Olympics athletes and nations compete first and only secondly get a chance to peddle products or ideologies...
...heavy-handidly depicting the battle between good and evil. At the end of each episode He-Man turns to the camera and says. "Today's lesson, kids, is that no matter how bad they are, everyone deserves a second chance," or whatever. The Cleavers never had to be so blatant--their familiar daily dramas spoke for themselves. John R. Boughman
...eight years since the death of Mao, Deng has installed the revolutionary notion that people produce more if offered incentives. Without upheaval or fanfare, without blatant feuds at the top or bloody purges at the grass roots, Deng and his pragmatic colleagues have brought about the most sweeping reforms ever attempted under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise...