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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their societies and politics. Scholars have suggested that the strange and bizzare events such as deaths and disappearances that mark Latin American novels are not as fictitious as they seem to North Americans, and are, in fact, a means of exposing the regimes that oppress their countries without being obvious...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Love Can Last a Thousand Years | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...sighed. "I said I have to help you rectify your mistake before it is over-whelmingly obvious to everyone that you're a skinflint, and I want to get done by 11, so let's hurry up before it gets too late...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Senior Class Spirit | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...figure Yates predicts will balloon to 1 million over the next five years. That would put Sassy in the same league as its chief competitors, Seventeen (circ. 1.86 million) and Teen (circ. 1.19 million), and make it much more successful than Ms. has ever been. Which prompts an obvious question: Will Sassy readers grow up to become Ms. subscribers? "I don't think there's a teenage girl who doesn't think she will have a worthwhile career and do anything a boy can do," says Yates, "so there certainly seems to be a lot of potential." Indeed, Yates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: From Feminists to Teenyboppers | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...Grand Palais in Paris, is of this kind. When the National Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris found they were all planning separate shows on different aspects of Gauguin -- his prints, his Brittany paintings and his Tahitian work -- it seemed obvious to merge the three. The result, thanks to its curators (Francoise Cachin and Claire Freches-Thory in France, Richard Brettell and Charles F. Stuckey in the U.S.), is both a curatorial masterpiece and the most complete view of its subject ever offered in a museum show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing Gauguin Whole at Last | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...continued: "It's certainly obvious that I'll be the last to leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polish Police Break Up Steel Mill Strike | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

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