Word: overt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blind man, wearing his customary dark glasses and feeling his way along with a white stick. The mocking caption: LEADER, LEAD US. For all its cruel imagery and satirical intent, the drawing is an apt image of the general's predicament. Although he has subdued all overt opposition by force, Jaruzelski is groping his way, amid formidable problems, toward a very uncertain future for Poland. -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Warsaw and Johanna McGeary with Haig
...Triangle's overt heroes belong to a tough little unit called Group M, which spearheaded British intelligence in New York. They are engaged in a desperate effort to pin down Otter and keep the Atlantic sea lanes open. As an ironic result of Gates' own efforts to track down the master saboteur, the British group is convinced that he is the Otter. Gates meanwhile has found out that the German has smuggled over a minisub and plans to torpedo the Queen Mary with 15,000 troops aboard...
...Bernays writes in his memoirs, "which opened the eyes of the intelligent few to the possibilities of regimenting the modern mind." In the years after the war, Bernays worked to combine the methods of market research, polls and symbols, with the strategy and tactics necessary to create an "overt act," what today we call the media event. By staging overt acts Bernays feels he went beyond protraying his clients dreams as reality; he actually made them reality. "Actions cannot lie," says Bernays, meaning that all overt acts, although they may seem artificial, retain their own power and meaning...
Indeed, any overt American military embrace would run the risk of smothering other U.S. friends in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia. Riyadh already fears that it might be perceived by radicals as a puppet of the U.S. ? a worry heightened by Reagan's ill-conceived declaration last month that Washington would not let Saudi Arabia become "an Iran." The President never made clear how he would back up his unsolicited promise to protect the Saudi monarchy from internal or external threats to its power...
...screenplay, by Gilliam and co-Python Michael Palin, is eclectic to the point of being wholly derivative, both thematically and visually. It draws on everything from the anti-modern stance of A Clockwork Orange, to the scenic flash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the overt tackiness of the original Flash Gordon: yet it remains an underwhelming story. The adventure involves Kevin, a young, modern-age Briton (not so much played as walked through by unknown Craig Warnock), whose parents ive in subservience to hundreds of whirring, useless kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across...