Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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APART from the obvious silliness of all this high-falutin' posturing there is a subtler, more insidious suggestion. These ads are not designed for just any consumer, they're for the wealthy, the status-conscious, the elite. Literature and art can now do for high-priced luxury items what alligators and polo ponies did for those once-cheap cotton sport shirts--they imbue the product with an unmistakeable mark of prestige...
...lesson for the undergraduates then that money and morality are emphatically divorced--does it have to be that way? Before the Civil War in this country those not necessarily in favor of slavery, but sympathetic to the slave interests, defended their inactivity by pointing to the obvious and apparently telling fact that there was simply too damn much money tied up in it. The sacred, almighty dollar once again! Our own comfort before everything...
...record, I've always been a Jim Rice enthusiast, my worship growing with the seasons and partially in response to the boos. For the record, I'm also perfectly prepared to become a Lee Smith fan, given time and given his obvious abilities but for the moment, my deepest sympathies lie elsewhere. When I entered Fenway Park Monday, I knew just what had to happen--I had to cheer for Jim Rice...
...effects of a de-centralized system are painfully obvious in other schools' attitude towards the Business School," Schaefer says...
About the only thing Illinois proved is that despite the obvious weaknesses of his opponents, Dukakis has not yet emerged strong enough to knock off any of them once and for all. As long as four white candidates stay in the race, Jackson could retain his lead in number of popular votes cast (he has 3.1 million so far, in contrast to 2.8 million for Dukakis) and continue to run second in delegates, even though the states still to vote have a lower percentage of blacks. It now seems almost certain that no candidate will win an outright majority...