Word: blatantness
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...Blatant case mismanagement, unabated abuse of litigants or public political endorsements would fall into this "not good" category, said Edwards...
...heard for years how successful we have been in combatting racial discrimination. We praise ourselves for having eliminated blatant discrimination--the name-calling, the assaults, and the Jim Crow laws. Our struggle, we tell ourselves, is to fight the subtle discrimination--the quiet, harmful fears we have of our differences. By not doing enough to combat it, however, we have allowed the blatant, violent bigotry to re-emerge...
...clear that blatant racial discrimination--even here at Harvard, a supposed bastion of tolerance and free-thinking--has not been eliminated. Part of the reason is that while we have been praising ourselves for the civil rights successes of the past 20 years, we have ignored the problems that persist...
...problems with the home office (obstructive tactics by the chancery, presided over by Monsignor "Catfish" Toohey, a despised rival of Joe's since childhood), with his clients (an overbearing parishioner who wants to buy his child's way into the church school) and with his territory (blatant boosterism for the suburb's tacky shopping mall, dominated by the "40-foot idol" of the Great Badger, complete with waving paw and an exposed, red neon heart). Even his assistant lets him down at first. When Joe gets a curate assigned to him, he turns out to be a child...
...this film as he runs the gamut of feelings--anger, fear, anguish and love being the chief ones. At times manipulative and at times manipulated, Pascali is always convincing. Kingsley's perfomrance is so good, in fact, that one can almost forgive him for the lousy script and blatant prejudice. But almost isn't good enough...