Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service steers clear of what Earner calls "blatant advocacy." Says he: "There is advocacy in the sense that we exist at all, but our reporting and editing is strictly professional. There is no pitch or special line." All CNS reports contain a complete listing of sources and their telephone numbers. The data help subscribers to use CNS stories as a starting point for their own coverage. So far the clients have been impressed. Says Marvin Siegel, an assistant metropolitan editor of the Times: "It's the sort of service every big city should have." In one recent three-week...
Commission Impossible. Thanks to their presence, things were tightly controlled. High-powered politicking by the well-oiled claque of East bloc veterans was so blatant at meetings of the Commission on Peace that angry Western delegates began calling it Commission Impossible. "Most of the people had no chance to speak at all," complained Pat Mapps, a black American delegate...
...control of some gay bars and other injustices. Some sociologists reckon that the nation's homosexual population, open and secret, is about 4,000,000, and so the new aggressiveness has a large potential. One picket sign in the Los Angeles parade sought to point the way: BETTER BLATANT THAN LATENT...
Perhaps the most blatant pitch in a movie of this sort, is the Strawberry Statement, even though the movie does not star Elliot Gould. It is scantily-written and over-directed in a cinema gullibilite style. Director Stuart Hagmann has taken a heavy hand in his zooms, tracking shots, cuts, and dissolves in a desperate attempt to obscure the transparency of Israel Horovitz's script. Horovitz himself is a very concerned, intelligent man, and even makes a cameo appearance in this movie, but his screenplay has little of the punch of his plays like Rats, or The Indian Wants...
REDUCE REGULATION OF FREIGHT. Railroads should be set free to charge any freight rates they wish, subject only to minimum supervision to guard against blatant discrimination. The present structure of rate regulation is a hangover from the 19th century, when railroads were big, rich monopolists. Today, intense competition from trucks, airlines, barges, pipelines-and the pressure of large shippers who often have much more financial clout than the railroads -can be trusted to "regulate" rates...