Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against others, with some kind of statement about what it means to be young in America. But Tuff Turf reaches a new nadir of gratuitous violence masquerading as moral message. What makes this especially curious is the true lack (in the first part of the movie, at least) of overt sex. The film really does try to convey a feeling of "nice guys finish first" while attempting to retain a real-world grounding...
...past few years, a remarkable upsurge in libel actions, accompanied by a startling inflation of damage awards, has threatened to impose a self- censorship which can as effectively inhibit debate and criticism as would overt government regulation." Bork also sees "evidence mounting that juries do not give adequate attention to limits imposed by the First Amendment," and when this is so, judges "should take cases from juries...
...This overt message, none too subtly integrated into the work, is that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. ought to work together for peace on the Earth. The Kremlin and the White House are portrayed as places of ignorance, unable to see the importance of cooperating for a better world. The specific instance in the film is the brewing conflict in Central America between the two superpowers. The cooperation of the scientists in space opposes this state of affairs. Told to break their vital connection and separate because of the conflict on Earth, the commanders refuse, symbolically showing the value...
PAST EFFORTS to change the ideological stance of the Supreme Courts subtle or overt, nave yielded mixed results. Just prior to the election, Justice William Rehnornst stated that attempts to find predictable justices have more often than not, backfired. The most famous recent example of a judge coming out of the after appointment was former Chief Justice Earl Warren. An Eisenhower appointee. Warren led the most liberal Court in history as it upheld the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and established many of the laws regarding prisoners rights that are currently in eclipse...
...18th century landed society-fenced about with deadly capital statutes, but also bound intimately together by chains of patronage running vertically through the classes-that enabled Stubbs to paint his admirably varied theater of land work, from haymakers to grooms, trainers and jockeys, without the least sign of overt condescension. Across the Channel, patrons liked pictures of drunken, vomiting peasants in the Dutch manner: a class zoo. Not in England, where Stubbs painted the cult of the horse with rapt attention, as a ritual focus of many skills and several mutually dependent classes...