Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production staff of The Bounty took obvious pains at making sure that their movie would not merely be a remake of standard Mutiny on the Bounty fare. Using new historical sources for the true story behind the mutiny, the filmmakers tried to flesh out the relationship between Bligh and Christian and make it clear that their motivations and personalities are much more complex than the cardboard characters in the originals. The movie also focuses much more than the originals on the details of the Bounty's journey and stay in Tahiti. The cinematography spends an inordinate amount of time presenting...
...current situation could not be less propitious, or the dilemma more obvious. It was articulated clearly by a top Administration military scientist, Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, about six weeks after Reagan's original Star Wars speech. The proposed defensive system, said DeLauer, could be overcome by Soviet offensive weapons unless it was coupled with substantial controls on offensive arms. "With unconstrained proliferation" of Soviet warheads, he added, "no defensive system will work...
Cinderella is not an obvious banner to follow into battle. In one form or another, the ballet dates back at least to 1813, but it has never been a truly popular theme. For A.B.T. the magic has worked: Cinderella has been a virtual sellout across the country, and, opening the company's two month New York City season last week, it proved to be a sumptuous, buoyant, surprisingly sophisticated show...
...hands raised, while at the same time not one BLSA/TWC student was raising his hand. After scanning the entire audience, Kenyatta turned to a Black student who did not have his hand raised, and asked him "Didn't you have your hand up before?" At that point, it became obvious that Kenyatta would not accept questions from the HJLSA or its supporters, and that the forum would not be conductive to the open exchange of ideas. After the majority of non-BLSA/TWC students had left the room, we remained as two of four or five non-BLSA/TWC students...
...proposed housing tract, and to the conviction of a county commissioner for accepting a bribe in the form of services from prostitutes. News-Press editors provide crisp color and clear maps and charts and give play to national and foreign stories of import, whether or not they are of obvious interest to readers...