Word: overtness
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...Herrera faces serious obstacles. For one thing, Noriega is well aware of his rival's moves, and has dismissed him from the military. Noriega has already stifled one overt coup attempt and nipped other plans. He and seven loyalists known as the "Magnificent Seven" constitute a ruthless faction eager to continue profiting from drugs and corruption...
Woods also aligns herself with the folk movement insofar as she is concerned with social issues. She admits a lack of "overt political stuff" in her lyrics. But she says she believes artists should work to solve problems in their communities, paraphrasing Bob Dylan by saying, "I believe in bringing it back home." As a member of Rick Berlin, Woods has performed in a series of benefits for Boston's homeless...
...when Frederick Wiseman directed his first documentary, Titicut Follies, a powerful look at life inside a Massachusetts prison for the criminally insane. At that time Follies' cinema-verite style exemplified the vanguard of documentary filmmaking: no interviews, no narration, no overt intrusion of the filmmaker's point of view. Since then, the technique has become something of a TV cliche. Prime-time shows from Hill Street Blues to CBS's 48 Hours have appropriated the hand-held camera and other slice-of-life touches. Even commercial directors have tossed away their tripods: cameras wander about relentlessly, trying to sell "reality...
...role of providing both the specificity and the passion that the candidate so assiduously avoids. Chris Edley, for example, talks animatedly about Dukakis' moving immediately after the election to forge a "vigorous consensus on a multi-year deficit plan." Implicit in this prediction is an awareness that far more overt sacrifice will required to douse the deficit than merely mobilizing an army of IRS agents to hunt down tax scofflaws. "There will be real action on the economic front," Edley says. "On the three fronts of the budget, economic development and international economics, you can expect...
Gorbachev has good reason to protect his flanks as the June 28 party conference approaches. Perestroika has drawn criticism ever since he announced it in the spring of 1985. Earlier this year, overt opposition intensified as the economic reforms began to be implemented and his principle of khozraschet, or cost accounting, started affecting an estimated 60% of Soviet industry. Many government bureaucrats have seen a threat to their extra privileges -- special housing, schools and food stores. Automatic bonuses for workers were threatened, which prompted protest strikes. Nationalist outbursts in the Baltic states, protest demonstrations by Crimean Tatars in Moscow...