Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ivory Coast the weak spot was falling world prices for cocoa, its chief export. The government unveiled plans in mid-February for sweeping income tax increases to offset the public-sector deficit, sparking two months of often violent strikes and street demonstrations. Little used to overt dissent, the government responded with force. Police and soldiers broke up protests using truncheons, tear gas and occasionally live ammunition. One schoolboy was shot dead...
...strains in race relations and the social isolation of the black underclass. On most shows, blacks are portrayed either as work buddies or in comfortable middle-class roles like an art-gallery owner on Father Dowling Mysteries. As a result, prejudice becomes an abstraction to be preached against and overt bigotry all but limited to a bizarrely menacing alliance between American Nazis and skinheads on 21 Jump Street. So too does TV breezily dismiss the crisis of the black family. On Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi Goldberg plays a recently jettisoned wife whose son's only adjustment problem is that working...
...taking, slows production of the aqueous humor and relieves the pressure. Eventually, however, many patients develop a tolerance for the drugs and must switch medications. Occasionally, surgery is needed, though in Bush's case probably not for many years. This glaucoma is easy to overlook, since it has no overt symptoms. But doctors are becoming more vigilant, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology now recommends that everyone over 40 be tested every two years...
...order to combat racial bias, people of different races need to work together to overcome harmful stereotypes which perpetuate the problem on both overt and psychological levels, Morales said...
...overt audience manipulation ever a viable substitute for theater? August Strindberg's The Father, now playing at the American Repertory Theater (ART), has as its principal goal the creation of misogynist emotion, and here it succeeds brilliantly. But ultimately the play's narrow ambitions undercut its achievements, and the constant insistence on negative character definition leaves us wondering whether any lesson other than hatred has been learned...