Word: overtness
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...independent movie like The House of Yes, a new black comedy from Miramax in which Spelling's character, Lesly, discovers that her fiance has been re-enacting the assassination of John F. Kennedy with his twin sister by way of foreplay. For Spelling, at last, the kitsch is overt, and thus The House of Yes represents what is known in the business as an opportunity to stretch...
Gone is the overt pop exuberance of the 1993 hit "Spin the Bottle," and the openly confessional tone of such Hatfield classics as "Everybody Loves me But You" and "Ugly". Instead, each track on Please Do Not Disturb contains a creative approach to personal songwriting. Rather than bowl over her audience with pained confidences, Hatfield has chosen to seek out alternate methods of self-expression...
...have a very intelligent student body that is not prone to making objectionable comments about being queer," he says. "[Prejudice] does exist here and it's not necessarily overt...
...makes it sound as though we all know each other and sit around in cafes all day chatting," says Marber. In fact they barely know one another. What really seems to bind these playwrights together, from the perspective of an outsider, is the absence from their work of any overt political agenda. These are not issue or idea plays (like, say, David Hare's Plenty or Caryl Churchill's Top Girls), though they speak seriously to a contemporary audience and reflect the world their authors see around them. The lost children in Shopping, the vomiting drug users and underage "rent...
...marshmallows at Barbie, make the projectiles move more slowly.'" But dumbing down, she insists, is precisely the wrong way to go. Girls don't think boys' games are too hard; they think they're too stupid. "They lack complexity in dimensions that girls care about," Laurel says. Boys like overt competition, violence and mastery for their own sake; girls, by contrast, prefer covert competition, intricate narratives and group efforts based on complex social hierarchies...