Word: blatantness
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...crafts, performances, demonstrations and hands-on activities,” must have appreciated the English lyrics and been thrilled by the familiar, rousing music of composer Georges Bizet. However, other audience members may have wondered if the sexual overtones of the performance, as evidenced by Carmen’s blatant seduction of Don Jose and her salacious dancing, were quite appropriate for the children present. Still, the multiracial cast of Carmen on the Common may have inspired some of the younger audience members and certainly must have broken the older audience members’ stereotypical views of opera as soley...
Given that Summerland's publisher, Miramax Books, is an affiliate of Miramax studios, guess who will produce the inevitable Summerland film? Miramax Books had already embarked on its blatant Harry Potter knock-off, the Artemis Fowl series, when Chabon came by with his idea for something subtler, a story about a struggle to fend off the end of everything, hinging upon baseball games played in a magical parallel world. The hero is that classic figure of children's literature, the semiabandoned child. Ethan Feld is 11. His mother has died of cancer. His loving but grieving father is absorbed...
...Sept. 12 speech to the United Nations, President Bush challenged that body to either come up with immediate decisive action on Saddam Hussein’s blatant, decade-long violations of previous U.N. resolutions or be deemed “irrelevant.” In light of what has transpired over the past week, it is clear that the lifelong diplomats assembled in New York have no idea of just how irrelevant they have already become...
...constitution is sacred. As such, any amendments should not be undertaken lightly,” he said. “I have no reservations in saying that the currently mooted changes in the constitution for the selfish gain of a few corrupt individuals are blatant attempts to rape it...Dictatorship awaits around the corner. This indeed is a struggle that is worth shedding blood...
Moreover, recruiting on the HLS campus will likely make no difference in the number of Harvard students who sign up for the military. Instead, the main effect of the change is in revealing the military’s true priorities of squelching any opposition to its blatant and unjustifiable discrimination. And don’t think the Air Force is in such desperate need of personnel that it must recruit here. All branches of the service are projected to meet their recruiting goals this year, and there is no desperate shortage of military personnel...