Word: blatantness
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When Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a French professor who has come to New Hampshire to lodge for the summer before starting a lectureship, tours the home of prospective landlord Charlotte Haze (Sue Lyons), he is completely turned off by her blatant, grotesque and clingy personality. But one look at Haze's shrewd, sexy adolescent daughter, Dolores (a.k.a. Lo or Lolita, played by Shelley Winters), sensuously sunbathing on the front lawn, and Humbert is there to stay. The story plays out Humbert's pedophilic passions, and, when Lolita and he go on a cross-country escapade, it becomes an extended commentary...
...course the sexual undertones range from subtle to blatant--to have time alone with Humbert, Charlotte Haze sends Lolita to Camp Climax, of all places. And Nabokov's narrative treats such themes as the role of the writer and the distinction between art and life, Freudian repression, myopia and the American obsession with the European Romantic...
...doesn't take long for the humor to escalate from the simple childish cruelty of Brian getting a paper airplane stuck in his brain to the blatant toilet humor of "Puke a Pound" and "Farting to the Favorites." This, of course leads into the most popular bathroom humor duo, Beavis and Butthead...
...entire press run, almost 14,000 copies, was chucked into dumpsters around campus because of, according to signs left in place of the papers, "the blatant and voluntary perpetuation of institutional racism against the Black Community by the DP and by the University. Sometimes inconvenience is worth the price. Think about it..." The signs were signed, "the Black Community...
Some people argue that marine mammals -- and most other animals, for that matter -- should never be held captive, even under the most humane conditions. Overt mistreatment, they say, is only the most blatant form of abuse; another is keeping animals in cramped spaces. Says Richard O'Barry, who trained five Flippers for the 1960s TV show and then became a marine-mammal activist: "Whales and dolphins live in a world of sound. In a tank, their sounds only bounce back at them. It's like living in a hall of mirrors. It has to drive them crazy." In fact, dolphins...