Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haggard face of homelessness is changing. It is growing younger, more feminine. A new class of homeless men, women and children is showing up in the shelters, people whose reasons for homelessness are less obvious but no less disturbing. The new destitute often confute the stereotype; they do not sleep on park benches or push around shopping carts bulging with their worldly goods. On the street they may appear neat and purposeful, with a place to go and work to be done...
...should we let children slip behind when we could be teaching them in their native language? People who object to this obvious solution seem to think that what is learned in Spanish or Vietnamese does not transfer to English, but they are obviously wrong...
...pretty accessible to everybody except pipe-bound academics and critics, at first. The reason is probably that I've been following William Carlos Williams' tradition in writing in the living American language and speech, writing in the living tongue, rather than an imitation of a literary tongue....It seems obvious. I don't know why other poets don't do it....It's like poets do themselves out of their audience...
...mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting director who picked her to play Betty Blue, sees something else. "Like Brigitte Bardot, her physical anomalies are more important than her beauty," he says. "There is obvious violence in her look." Americans will have a chance to make their own determination. The movie is just opening around...
...into local schools. At a Mass last month, the outraged priest played one of the smuggler ballads and then asked his congregation, "There's a war going on. It's good against evil; what do you want?" As worshipers applauded and gathered around him afterward, the answer was obvious...