Word: overtness
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...Hong Kong, radio-show personalities face less overt intimidation, but their broadcast freedom is nevertheless being threatened. Albert Cheng, a bespectacled society icon and radio host, decided last month to take indefinite leave from his ultra-popular talk show, "Teacup in a Storm," after the Broadcast Authority warned his radio station, Commercial Radio, about his on-air conduct. (Wong Yuk-man's program is carried by the same station.) The warning comes at a sensitive time, when the issue of the station's license?due for renewal next year?is still being addressed. The controversy centered on two shows this...
Sweet Sixteen may put viewers with a long memory in mind of Ken Loach's fine 1969 film Kes, about another troubled teen contending with a troubled life. It is similarly handsome and similarly lacking in the overt didacticism that has scored many of Loach's later films, not always to their advantage. Its ending will also remind viewers of Truffaut's The 400 Blows--a lonely lad standing on an empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable...
...said that while he is “very much concerned with the situation in Tibet,...he primarily sees himself as a Buddhist teacher and doesn’t want to engage in overt politics,” she said. “He favors his role as a religious leader, while he is aware of the political significance of his presence...
...left him unable to send another inmate to die. Often appearing flustered or confused, accidentally swatting the microphones when trying to make a point, wearing a pained expression on his wrinkled face, Ryan conveyed the impression of a man who has wrestled with his own shortcomings. There were no overt references to his speckled past or potentially troubled future, but the former governor and consummate politician seemed unpolished, as if he had been shaken by his years in the statehouse...
...everyone thinks the overt approach is the way to win friends or converts. Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American Islamic Relations says the two groups are "seeking to exploit people in their moment of vulnerability." Nonevangelical Christian outfits like the Mennonite Central Committee and Catholic Relief Services forbid preaching. And at least one major evangelical player expects his fieldworkers to show restraint. Says Clive Calver of World Relief, an agency owned by 43,000 American churches: "We're obviously not against spreading the Christian Gospel. But I don't want to be involved in anything where you give...