Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty girl, and it was obvious she worked hard at it. She came from Texas, had gone to boarding school in Vickburg, Mississippi, and now she was a freshman at Hampshire College. She hated it. It seems her roommates made fun of her make-up, her politics, her attitudes towards sex, and the flirtatious, coy way she acted around men. "All my friends went to Ole Miss (University of Mississippi)," she said. "I don't know why I wanted to come up here. I guess it was pressure from my parents. I'm different. I'm not like everybody else...
Instead of displaying caution amid the obvious backlash against its past influence, the maritime industry engaged in some of its most blatant lobbying efforts. Just six weeks before the House committee approved the bill in August, a fund-raising cocktail party for Chairman Murphy in Washington garnered $9,950 from maritime sources for his 1978 campaign. "That doesn't mean I'm bought," snapped Murphy angrily after Common Cause broke the news. But the fact that Congressmen had to deny they were selling votes showed how counterproductive the lobbying effort had become...
...come up with a pungent, Tabasco-like chemical compound synthesized from peppers that may be the most effective deterrent of all. When sprayed on sheep, the hot sauce chills a coyote's appetite. One spraying can be effective for up to 28 days. But researchers admit to one obvious concern: coyotes might eventually learn to like, rather than shun, their lamb spray...
...agreeable as his reluctant modern Moses, and Teri Garr is marvelous as a model of wifely forbearance, deftly blending skepticism about her husband's claims to contact with the higher-up and faith in his fundamental good sense. Carl Reiner's low-keyed direction avoids some obvious errors. Once Denver begins preaching the latest word from on high, the media get interested, and there is an opportunity to make the customary comments on the circus aspects of overnight celebrity. But Reiner makes the point lightly. Heavy preachment is just not his style. The result is a movie that...
...narrative takes a sharp turn after Pinero acquaints the audience with his principals. While the inmates are gathered in the open space on one of the floors in the prison, a new character enters the picture. He strikes an obvious contrast with the hardened thugs who people the prison, given his layered haircut, handsome WASP features and sharp-looking sports suit. Introduced to the assembled inmates as Clark Davis (Bruce Davison), the new prisoner immediately attracts thepaternalistic attention of the leader among the white prisoners, a tough Irish ethnic named Charlie "Longshoe" Murphy (Joseph Carberry). Longshoe willingly takes Davis under...