Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These savagely inaccurate observations don't measure up to the overt pretentiousness that fills up this book review. Hagar not only had problems with the "old people" at the reading as well as Will Self's choice of beverage, but apparently she assumes one must possess some sort of British "roaring boy" background to fully comprehend Amis' work: "Amis hasn't made any waves on this side of the Atlantic...At Oxford, Amis is a normal topic of discussion." That statement is a firm justification for doing away with those semester-abroad programs. The pompous and presumptuous Hagar had just...
Malcolm X once wrote, "Conservatism' in America's politics means 'Let's keep the niggers in their place." Unfortunately, this assessment is as true now as it was 30 years ago. While the overtly racist tenets of conservatism have largely been forced out of political discourse, they have frequently been replaced by covert race-baiting and what Senator Patrick Moynihan (DNY) has termed "benign neglect." And overt racism is beginning to gain more and more legitimacy, as neoconservatism encourages "angry white men" to search for scapegoats...
Blindsided by the allegations, President Clinton ordered his Intelligence Oversight Board to conduct a "government-wide review" of the case. The White House is also investigating whether the CIA in 1990 secretly increased aid to the Guatemalan military to make up for a Bush Administration cutoff of overt military assistance as a protest over the Devine murder. FBI agents were dispatched last week to the NSA's headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, to secure its communications records on Guatemala. The cia, Pentagon and State Department launched their own investigations...
...typically Canadian fashion, the company was far too polite to take any overt notice of Him. We pretended to glance over at the tree He was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we swore we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob Him, like a dam waiting to burst. We looked at each other, wondering who would be first to release the floodgate...
...these actors and actresses have an appealingly childlike quality. Pitt is the sort of free spirit who might woo a girl by popping wheelies in a parking lot. Hawke would be more likely to take her to his dorm room and show off his John Coltrane collection. Rather than overt sex appeal, actresses like Marisa Tomei and the Parkers project the flustered insouciance of college coeds. They are the smart, pretty girls on campus who keep losing their library cards. Declares Thurman: "I am completely a goofball nerd...