Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brash, precocious adolescent, he develops and matures throughout the course of the novel, whereas Portnoy's Complaint is the story of retarded adolescence. The explicitness and concern with sexual identity remain in The Professor of Desire but Roth is less intent on trying to shock the reader through blatant exhibitionism. In Portnoy's complaint, Portnoy was a rebel who shamelessly flouted the conventions and laws of his world. He was a heretic whereas David is a devotee who, in his own words, approaches sex as if it were "sacred ground." In fact, what Roth seems to do in The Professor...
America has gone from a situation of "benign concern to malignant neglect," he said. Although the general condition of blacks here has improved, eliminating some of the more "blatant aspects of American apartheid," their relative position has worsened. Blacks remain disproportionately powerless, he said...
...seem to be thrown together rather than playing off each other for maximum comic peaks. More disappointing, however, is the fact that Rappeneau has failed to correct the sexist treatment of women so common in such comedies. Embodied in such catch-all phrases as "charming" or "crazy" lies a blatant sexist attitude which suggests that women wearing nothing but loosely buttoned men's shirts three sizes too large for them, or women who irresponsibly knock over lamps, smash holes in shipbottoms, who make themselves a general and continual pain are excusable if--and only if--they possess enough sex appeal...
...anyone about to become President. (Playboy has been capitalizing on Carter's famous word ever since, assuring advertisers that the Playboy reader's "lust for life" makes him an impulsive big spender.) Within the past year, while Penthouse in particular has made its inside text more blatant and kinkier, both Playboy and Penthouse have toned down the nudity of their covers. Guccione, whose Penthouse makes more money for news dealers than any other magazine, is concerned about the small-town Midwest distributor "whose wife plays pinochle with all the local wives." On request, Guccione supplies free "blinder racks...
BIAS IN EDUCATION. The document charges blatant discrimination in the schools, despite guarantees of equal education in the national constitution. Children of outspoken believers are systematically excluded from some types of higher education by a rule requiring applicants to provide recommendations from the Communist Youth League, the petition says...