Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chances. Its hopes is that decadence can be at once entertaining and instructive, and that its historical milieu can provide a poignant contrast to the lives of its characters. The danger is that the decadence will shine forth as either bogus or overwhelming, and that the historical setting will overshadow the characters poised before it. Cabaret gambles on the trade and, I fear, it loses. But though it fails to execute the move completely it's still one of the deftest entertainments around...
...much as breathes the word lesbian at her, she goes to pieces." During the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality that marked the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage, the issue of lesbianism burst into the open. Some feminist leaders, warned that the participation of lesbians would overshadow other issues, tried to downplay the controversial subject during the marches and rallies. A quiet, often bitter debate followed; the result was a declaration from N.O.W. and tacit agreement by local groups that freedom of sexual orientation was a humanist concern and therefore could not be ignored by Women...
...personality shine through on the screen," says Henry. "It's a small tube. If you clutter it up with a lot of people, you lose the most interesting thing in the world-the human face." With simplicity as the keynote, nothing was allowed to overshadow the star-Flip Wilson...
...there was one other reason why many Italians were ready to forgive the Deputies for their indecision and rejoice in the final selection. That was Vittoria Leone, 42, a radiant beauty, who as the new hostess of the Palazzo del Quirinale will rival-and, said some, perhaps overshadow-Madame Claude Pompidou of France as the most beautiful of Europe's first ladies...
Hardly anyone today still believes that the nine justices can impartially approach every issue without any prejudice or preconception. Far more popular is the revisionist view of the high bench as merely another political body where, in the end, individual beliefs overshadow legal precedent. Insofar as that is true, it makes sense to choose new members of the court with an eye to reflecting the national body politic. Nonetheless, even though the Justices cannot be free of their own beliefs, there remains a conviction-held doubtless by President Nixon, among many others-that the members of the court...