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Word: overtness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little Red Corvette," from his mainstream breakthrough record 1999, could not have expressed a one-night stand in a more inventive and lyrical way. The overt sexuality of Prince's music could not be denied--it was neither pointless nor unimaginative...

Author: By Danielle A. Phillip, | Title: Princely Smut | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...Progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-backed councillors have held a majority in City Hall since 1990. But their first term in power wan relatively free from overt partisan politics. Since CCA councillors won a second majority in the 1991 election, they have done far more than appoint like-minded officials...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Political Observers See Growing Partisan Friction in City | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Like most other women students, I always felt abit detached, one step removed, from the rest ofHarvard. Yet, in the face of overt discrimination,we Cliffies were remarkably passive--and so wasthe Radcliffe administration. President MaryBunting threw her considerable energies intobuilding a separate house system and undergraduatelibrary for Radcliffe instead of integratingHarvard's institutions...

Author: By Linda Mathews, | Title: A Quarter Century Later, Two Graduates Reflect | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...roughly two dozen guards approached by TheCrimson this week, only three said they had everwitnessed overt acts of harassment inside thedepartment...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Security Officials Deny New Charge By Minority Guard | 5/20/1992 | See Source »

...stiletto heels. It was a pair of Ferragamo high heels that Monroe was wearing in The Seven Year Itch when the warm air from a subway grate famously raised her skirt. Ferragamo's shoes were sexy without being trampish. His come-get-me shoes were elegant, not overt, their allure coming from the fact that they simultaneously revealed and concealed, which is the secret of all eroticism in fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shoes of the Master | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

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