Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...most conservative groups in Soviet society, the armed forces would seem to be an obvious target for Gorbachev's reforming zeal. But with so much pressure building inside the military for change, sheer momentum may bring about the kind of changes Gorbachev wants, without the President's having to lift a finger...
Understandably, the viewer is not exactly sure what to make of the work--it is hard, after all, to imagine a film suffering from too much talent. But there is an obvious incompatability between the writing talents of Bergman (proven in the past by his works Blazing Saddles and Fletch) featured in this taut, very funny script, and the monolithic acting abilities of two-time Academy Award winner Brando. Matters are complicated further by the fact that The Freshman is largely a parody of the mob ethos engendered by The Godfather and its central character, Don Corleone, immortalized by Brando...
...Nobody wants to be nominated if they think there's a strong internal candidate who's the obvious choice," Costa said. "To go up against a candidate as popular as Mr. Rosovsky would be very difficult...
...Reagan style was made up of three elements, the first and most obvious located at the point where warmth intersects rhetoric. Reagan's rhetoric was crafted by flacks, and the warmth may not have warmed anyone within actual touching distance, apart from Nancy, but from a podium or in front of a lens, the combination was overpowering. Reagan, said Tip O'Neill in a moment of frustration, could win an election with the votes of a group of bankrupt farmers. O'Neill, no mean blarneyer himself, was paying homage to a master...
...China. Reagan, unlike Nixon, had a reserve fund of trust, and he drew on it. A more pertinent example of a low-cost Reagan switch comes from his days as Governor of California. Reagan, as part of his general opposition to high taxes, believed that taxpaying should be an obvious and unpleasant activity -- "Taxes should hurt" was a favorite slogan -- and he was therefore opposed to state income tax withholding, a position on which, he said, "my feet are in concrete." When, after a few years in Sacramento, he found that the state could not generate a livable cash flow...