Word: overt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pendulum has swung is evident in Available Light, which travels to the Brooklyn Academy of Music later this month. Childs, who collaborated earlier with fellow avant-gardists such as Composer Philip Glass and Theater Artist Robert Wilson, is a cool rationalist who favors organizational clarity over overt emotionalism. The repeating patterns that ripple through her dances are imitated and finally dispersed like waves spreading across a pond. There are no kicks, leaps or pronounced extension. Childs' dynamic level rarely rises above a whispered pianissimo...
...progressive Islam, however, could well appeal to the apparently pragmatic Andropov, for it provides an ideological justification for a Soviet attempt to harness the anti-Americanism of resurgent Islam, and so subsume religious fundamentalism within the framework of East-West rivalry. Such a doctrine also creates intellectual justification for overt support of left wing Muslim fundamentalists, which groups have in the past received only covert assistance...
However, three council members voted against the bridge in spite of the absence of overt controversy surrounding...
...other times, such overt parent-child rivalry might be considered unhealthy. These days it is considered smart. By the end of his week in the mountains, Schnelker had written and debugged a 1,000-line BASIC program and learned enough about computers to hold his own with both the programmers on his staff and the young know-it-alls at home. And Schnelker is not alone. This summer thousands of men and women are signing up for the nation's newest form of vacation retreat: the adult computer camp...
...freighter to the limit of Nicaragua's territorial waters, twelve miles from the coast. Even as the Administration proceeded with plans for the military exercises, which will involve 19 naval vessels and as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen at sea and in Honduras, it was displaying increasingly overt interest in finding a diplomatic solution to the Central American dilemma. Last week, after elaborate planning, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met secretly with Ruben Zamora, 40, a leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, which represents the five guerrilla organizations that are fighting under a joint banner in El Salvador...