Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leone's spaghetti westerns, Hitchcock's The Birds, Preminger's Advise and Consent. All are auteur genre items; Sarris rarely has the flexibility of such British auteurists as Raymond Durgnat to admit that non-auteurs can produce great films. Each has raw narrative material of questionable significance, and a blatant commercial bent which made the few respectable critics feel rotten and cheated the morning after, unless trash was all they expected...
...Timers tried to pace themselves and slow down the hockey waiting for a good shot and shying away from hitting. But Fernie Flaman could not restrain himself and got two penalties. one for blatant offensive checking...
Allow me to correct a few of the more blatant errors. First methyl alcohol (not ethyl alcohol) has been found toward the galactic center. The group responsible for this discovery includes Carl A. Gottlieb and A. E. Lilley of Harvard and H. E. Radford of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Dr. Radford supervised the all-important measurements of the laboratory frequencies. The formic acid discovery was made by a group headed by B. Zuckerman of the University of Maryland and including Gottlieb and Radford...
Courts in Front. Ending overt discriminatory practices in existing and planned accommodations-the goal of most open-housing statutes-is primarily an enforcement problem. Another, more subtle obstacle is the exclusionary suburban zoning ordinance. It often has the effect of blocking construction of low-and moderate-cost housing. Unlike blatant Jim Crow barriers, zoning makes a difficult legal target. Its legitimate purpose-to allow a community to plan its land use rationally-has been upheld as proper and constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court...
Many of Bickel's detractors claim that his broadside pronouncements are a blatant effort to promote himself for the Supreme Court. But Bickel denies it and even suggests that the next court appointee might have experience in high political office-which he obviously does...