Word: blatantness
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Most of the songs in My favorite Year are blatant rip-offs of other, more famous, numbers from other, better-written, shows. While Flaherty's music is more boring than bad, Ahrens' lyrics are unremittingly awful. The tag line of "Everything Was Beautiful at the Ballet"-- whoops, I mean "Larger than Life"-- for example, is "Gee, he was bigger and better and larger than life." The by-the-numbers finale (called, of course, "My Favorite Year") includes the profound lyric "you could cross a bridge and not have it burn/someone leaving your life could also return...
...peacekeeping troops, in practice the attacks were a U.S. experiment: an attempt to use limited military force to end the fighting in Bosnia. But the result was inconclusive, with the Serbs still in a position to fight on, and Washington appearing unable to punish the Serbs, no matter how blatant the provocation...
...unequivocally deny that I ever told Mr. Ntshanga or anyone else that I was prejudiced against Blacks since childhood. This is a blatant lie and I take exception to the allegation...
...main issues: What will be done to ease the poverty that still afflicts so many Mexicans, and how much electoral reform will the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I., accept without endangering its 65-year grip on the presidency -- which opponents regularly charge has been maintained through blatant vote fraud...
Since Scrogin's article was published, the response among the museum attendants has been either amusement at the blatant inaccuracies within the article, or concern that museum management and the Harvard community will wrongly conclude that these are the opinions of the majority of museum attendants...