Word: overtness
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...better job showing how the flinchy, all-business Sayers, a born superstar, clashed with Piccolo, who compensated for his middling talent with hard work and disarming jokes. The update also looks more closely at the subtle prejudice the African American Sayers faced among his own team (along with overt public racism when he and Piccolo became the Bears' first interracial roomies). But it cuts a key scene in which Piccolo calls Sayers a "nigger" to get a rise out of him, an apparent sop to contemporary sensibilities. Phifer's Sayers is a tougher nut to crack than Williams'; as Piccolo...
...most successful teen pop. Spears is also at the end of the line on the path of clothing-removal; after this video, she soon will have nothing left to take off. An adolescent market used to sexual tension and barely repressed desire, will not respond well to the overt lust of “Slave.” Her initially bubbly optimism has become a dark and tormented struggle: one that interests no one but herself...
...repression and desire to break free. Not only is the motif a trite one, but it also is repeated with such monotony on her album—eight of the twelve tracks are about her restrictions—that it loses all significance. The other four songs are overt sexual invitations, neither particularly interesting nor titillating...
...critique he has written about the U.S. He visits the Michigan Militia, Republican political rallies, an abortion clinic and the execution of Texas’s prettiest psychopath, Karla Faye Tucker. He is typically Canadian in his incredulity at the American right wing, particularly at its overt courtship of fundamentalist Christians. He mocks the diminutive Christian zealot Gary Bauer, who ran for president in 2000. Executions are rejected as illogical and bloodthirsty; the militia leader is simply psychotic. And he points out a few nonpolitical neuroses: the American compulsion, for example, to eat fatty foods, grow monstrously obese and lust...
...result, Adio said, journalists continue to face both overt and covert suppression of speech...