Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappearance of several adolescent girls from a Victorian boarding school is often hilariously overdone, but the subject is eerie and the idea has potential. Weir is a wild Romantic, he gives every shot of nature stark religious overtones piled on to the point of silliness. The beginning is obvious but fun. There is no doubt as to what happens to the girls, but there follows more than an hour of ponderous, redundant "evidence," the result of an Agatha Christie-type structure which, Weir irritatingly enough, never fulfills. Weir may be an artist--he certainly makes films that proclaim their profundity...
...sequence that stopped just short of disaster exposed a number of weaknesses in the safeguard system, including the obvious flaw of not having a remote-control method of adjusting a stuck valve. But human fallibility apparently was the more alarming shortcoming of what happened at Three Mile Island. Once the original on-site mistakes had been made, the blame spread to the NRC itself. Commission officials privately admit that they were slow to get an emergency crew with the necessary skill and authority to the scene of the disaster. Had the right men been there at the right time, three...
...Schreiber's not going to talk about all that. She's had enough of all the speculation about her appointment, and of all the writers who've made their prejudices about women sportswriters obvious in their profiles of her. Of course, one can't overlook the Times's out-of-court settlement of a 1978 class action suit charging it with discriminatory hinning and promotion practices. Or its subsequent agreement to fill 25 per cent of its senior editorial staff positions with women and other minorities. But as A.M. Rosenthal executive editor of the Times, insists. "We didn't choose...
From the start it was obvious that Engineer starter George Noll was in for a long, cold afternoon. Noll has a curve that's even money to bounce before it gets to the plate and a fastball that could charitably be called slightly sneaky...
...academic purposes--regularly use their economic leverage pursuant to law to enforce political, economic and ethical policies. Affirmative action, tax and student financial aid laws, the conditions imposed upon the grant of research funds, and in the case of public institutions, their basic operating budgets, are among the more obvious examples...