Word: blatantness
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...Adventureland” wants to explore the commitment struggles of two genuinely attached adults, but the theme park setting feels like a middle school as rumors bring about the breakup of the popular couple. “Superbad” succeeded because it laughed at the blatant immaturity of its protagonists and through that managed to arrive at a kernel of emotional charm. “Adventureland,” by contrast, never reaches this same endearment, though it aims more directly for dramatic conflict. Because the movie is set in a world of young adults rather than adolescent kids...
...detail. The grim violence and dark humor contrasts well with the sterile surfaces of the mall and the masses of robot-like shoppers who constantly pass in the background. It also represents a more irreverent and bolder kind of comedy. Some of the shots are indeed very cheap; the blatant racism between Ronnie and a Middle Eastern salesman and the band of misfits that make up Ronnie’s security guard crew (complete with a Hispanic second in command, incompetent Asian twins, and a shy redhead) are nothing new. The choice to use Faris as the tarty cosmetics saleswoman...
Interhouse restrictions are a blatant injustice. Freshmen have Annenberg, but what do Quadlings have? Boloco? The guys there know me as “Regular Mediterranean Tofu” from all my post-rejection visits and I am, accordingly, ashamed...
Last Friday, we discovered that guests at the Chinese Students Association’s Graffiti Party had scrawled racial slurs on the walls of the Lowell Grille. This blatant act of intolerance is unacceptable. Unfortunately, this event is just one of the most recent in a series of discriminatory incidents that have transpired in the past two weeks...
...inferior to men. The sexism of the past stemmed from innumerable sources within society as a whole, and the schools “back then” did not create the awful sexual stereotypes; they merely reinforced them. And, since we no longer live in a society that promotes blatant sexism, we cannot therefore assume that single-sex classrooms—especially for periods as brief as a few years—could revive the disparate nature of gender relations that for so long defined this country...