Word: overt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most overt example of statusgrubbing did not occur in baseball but in basketball. Consider the year that both Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell were getting their contracts renewed. A few days after Red Auerbach signed Russell to the tune of $100,000, Chamberlain demanded $100,001. The rivalry that the two big men had on the court spilled off the court...
...plot thickens. This is no ordinary affair, but one between a man and the wife of his best friend. Heard that one before? The play also suggest a homosexual relationship between the two friends, a suggestion which this production makes overt...
...veteran firefighter also maintained that he has been the object of overt harassment, receiving an Playgirl centerfold of a nude man, a pamphlet on AIDS and an anti-gay taped on his locker...
What makes this overt dichotomy interesting is the critical light Gardner casts upon our traditional concepts of law, order, justice, protest, and individual rights. Representing the law, Clumly suggests that the essence of the law-abiding citizen is a capacity to overlook the obvious injustices--let alone the small annoyances--of daily life...
...Racism has always been a problem" at the university, said Lewis, a senior, but it has become "more overt and directed to violence" in last few years...