Word: overt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cynics will find some of the play's more overt symbolic actions silly. Jake opens a box of his father's ashes and blows. An American flag somehow finds itself draped like a blanket around Jake's shoulder's and later stuffed like a bridle into his mouth or tied like an old rag around Mike's rifle barrel. But these tend to be balanced by moments in which the play takes itself less seriously, as when Lorraine says of Beth and Jake, "A woman who lives with a man like that deserves to be killed," or when Baylor rhapsodizes...
...matter what Patterson's motives, it is time to say that no racist remark or incident can be overlooked or dismissed. When people accept casual racial slurs, they reinforce attitudes that have no place. Such intolerable attitudes can lead to more overt and destructive racism...
...title piece, "Amazon Women on the Moon," a B-grade 1950s sci-fi disaster, whose plot can be deduced from its title. The film's accurate stone-age special effects (rockets hanging from wires, etc.) and sound problems are surpassed in ludicrousness only by the film's overt jingoism, sexism, materialism and xenophobia...
...Iran chose to escalate in other ways that could be directly traced to Tehran, such as overt mining of gulf waters or frontal attacks on the reflagged tankers, the Pentagon has a menu of additional options. One choice is retaliatory U.S. mining around the Iranian oil refinery at Kharg Island or around the major port of Bushehr, two crucial harbors for Iranian sea trade. If more aggressive U.S. strikes were needed, particularly in retaliation for direct attacks on the tankers, bombers from the Constellation could hit Iranian airfields and key petroleum-refining installations with ease...
...around the murkiness of the Boland amendment and the fact that it carries no criminal penalties. Besides seeking indictments charging such specific crimes as obstruction of justice, perjury and misuse of Government funds, Walsh may tie many defendants together in a broader conspiracy case, arguing that the individual overt acts were committed in pursuit of a larger scheme to evade the will of Congress. Engaging in such a conspiracy would be a felony punishable by five years in prison...