Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plead with security personnel to be allowed inside and in some cases bring denied entrance. No arrangements were made for videotaping or broadcasting the event for people not accommodated inside. An apology is due to those who might have an event of this importance adequate logistical would be obvious necessity Anna H. Wexler Graduate School Of Education
...moviegoers in the U.S., France and Japan who have made a hit out of this 1980 comedy by South African Writer-Director-Producer-Actor -Cinematographer-Editor Jamie Uys. The film's pleasures are simple and obvious: an original plot, lots of slapstick and a lead performance by the Bushman N!xau, who registers every absurdity with the aplomb of an aboriginal Buster Keaton. There is a tinge of paternalism in Uys' attitude toward both the Bushman and the bumbling rebels, but he seems no racist; he tars all his characters, black and white, with the same broad satirical brush. With...
Still, it is obvious that John Paul sees no choice but to clarify and unify the church's public voice and preserve its heritage, although it is not certain what further disciplinary measures he might impose to achieve that goal. Like most previous Popes, he is planning strategy not for tomorrow but for the centuries. His church has experienced persecution, wars, internal venality and schism, and yet survived and thrived. It is quite possible that John Paul II, who is only 64, will see Catholicism into the third millennium, a calendar point to which he often refers. He looks...
...course, in one sense we should have been shocked by the brutal, senseless killing of this Harvard graduate, who was stabbed seven times outside her Upper West Side apartment. But not-withstanding the obvious news angle to this story ("Pretty Aspiring Actress Slain"), its coverage revealed something about our society. Of the hundreds of murders that happen yearly in New York City, this was one of the few that merited front-page placement in The New York Times, and then the continuous attention of the nation's major news media during the following week...
...party bigwigs and savvy hostesses this time took vows of simplicity. "The word was out from the Inaugural committee that this is a people's Inauguration," said Dane Towell of Glorious Food, a catering firm based in New York City and Washington. "We were told to avoid too many obvious luxuries...