Word: obviously
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Round one--the pies simply graze the ankles of the two participants. The crowd groans in obvious dismay. The second about is more satisfying, with pies be-purpling the chemises of both Miss Markof-Belaeff and Mr. Holmes. However, round three takes the cake (so to speak), when both participants approach within a foot of each other and boldly smush a pie in the other's face...
...Future" is the AEC motto. The members of the Art Ensemble are quick to deny any racial or elitist intent--the motto is meant to acknowledge and affirm the singular course of American black musical development. The group's radical conception of musical performance has as its obvious source the improvisation and spontaneous creation which are characteristic of jazz, blues, and Afro-American folk music. These are musical values that have no counterpart in the mainstream of Western culture. But classifications like "jazz" or even "music" seem to narrow to contain the Art Ensemble's vision of "Great Black Music...
After deprecating the students and faculty--with only an ephemeral warning about insensitive administrators--the letter moves to the specific problems of defining the conditions under which gifts will be rejected. The most obvious condition, he states, is when a donor "improperly restricts" academic freedom by insisting on choosing who shall be appointed to his endowed chair, or what sorts of doctrines his money shall be used to support. Harvard rejects donations of that sort, Bok says. If a donor wished to "promote the value of the free market," for instance, the money would be turned down. Curiously enough...
...issue of precisely how a firm goes about disentangling itself from the apartheid economy is perhaps the most arcane of all. South Africa, fearing the obvious consequences of foreign capital "heading for the exit," has evolved numerous laws and regulations designed to frustrate such moves; this is to be expected. But it does not require much training in the "dismal science" to realize that the more South Africa restricts the right of foreign investors to manage and dispose of their assets, the less attractive investment in that country becomes. To restrict unreasonably the freedom of investors to repatriate the profits...
More serious theorists had a more obvious culprit-Israel. Fearful that Iraq would use the reactor to produce bombs rather than electricity, the Israelis have been protesting the proposed shipment for the past three years. The French had been stung many times before by MOSSAD, Israel's secret service, notably on Christmas morning 1969, when its agents piloted five embargoed gunboats from the port city of Cherbourg to Haifa in a daring and well-executed maneuver. Certainly, Israel benefits from the sabotage, but its officials have denied that they triggered the La Seyne explosion, branding such suggestions "anti-Semitism...