Word: salient
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Most of the policy recommendations of the New Mainstream are not new at all. Without even bothering to create new metaphors, Wilder talks of "cutting the fat out of the budget" and of eliminating "pork barrels." He makes the same trite (though admittedly salient) attacks on members of Congress for not being responsive to constituents. And he waxes patriotic on how America made Europe and Japan what they are today...
...salient example is Javerbaum's performance in a scene with Hill. It is an awkward dinner between a young man in academia and his elderly father, but Javerbaum diminishes the uncomfortable and pitiful nature of the encounter by walking offstage seemingly unperturbed...
...those who lived through the Second World War, the fear of German aggression is most salient. Despite assurances in the reunification treaty that Germany will slash its fighting force to 345,000 soldiers and renounce chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, the memory of three horrible conflagrations in the past 120 years dies hard. Notions of an aggressive and authoritarian "German character" abound...
...most salient and sad fact is that a show of art of this unique value comes to the common public only through controversy. As a friend of Mapplethorpe once said, "One man's celebration is another man's decadence." Admittedly, Mapplethorpe's works would have drawn crowds even without the "XYZ" controversy. But the throngs lined up inside and outside the ICA are drawn there by curiousity over a fiercely debated and publicized affair, involving issues of sexuality and expression, involving rallying and standard-bearing...
Five years ago, a publication called Perspective began down this path. Started by students who wanted a liberal counterpart to the Salient, the campus conservative monthly, Perspective attracted a small core of members, published a few well-written issues, raised some eyebrows by including free condoms in one edition--and then ran out of funds...