Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many in Washington have drawn the obvious parallel to the 1972 election. Superficially, the analogy holds. Reagan, like Nixon, is a popular incumbent playing footsie with Third World crises, playing hardball with the Soviets, and playing around with ethics behind closed doors. The Democrats, as in 1972, are tearing themselves to shreds in the nomination fight. The incumbent will play off Democratic discord and win handily through some deft international diplomacy and a thinly disguised call for a return to a pre-polymorphic America...
...women through the ages have altered and disguised their bodies to fit the latest fashion "Appearance, not accomplishment is the feminine demonstration of desirability and worth." Brownmiller blithely asserts, Brownmiller opens with this safe discussion of corsets and diets, and continues her litany with a list of less obvious feminine shackles...
...JAPANESE world of high technology, good cars and the perfection of the capitalist system, geishas seem an anachronism. In a sense they are; they represent and transmit traditional Japanese culture and typify the most exotic and obvious symbol of Japan...
...advanced stages of candidate fatigue are obvious. "I can tell," Mondale says. "My syntax starts going first." Press Secretary Maxine Isaacs notes that his looks go too: "He gets big bags under his eyes." Other aides say Mondale gets grouchy as long days wind down...
...aside from its most obvious defect-the absence of Bill Murray from the cast led by Steve Guttenberg-the picture does not awaken the denunciatory spirit. Like others of its ilk it is solidly grounded in three great traditions of low comedy: it is cheerfully contemptuous of authority; it is leeringly respectful of the shapely female form; and, above all, its director, Hugh Wilson (who wrote the film with Neal Israel and Pat Proft), understands that you can go a long way in comedy on sheer energy. His picture seethes like a study hall when the teacher has stepped...