The most obvious villains -- once powerful, now completely discredited analysts like Henry Blodget and Jack Grubman, and the corrupt system of stock research as it was practiced in the 1990's -- have been vanquished.
Most obvious is the exodus: once 14.5m-strong, Zimbabwe now has nearer 11m people.
It occurs to me here that "outsider art" is a dated term, and that "tourist art" would better describe this way of seeing everything, even the most obvious things, all at once, and refracting it in a prism of pure delight.
Should the Yankees' Jason Giambi (once "the most obvious juicer in the game," according to Canseco) falter at the start of this coming season, he might consider the alternate path of his old teammate "Josey".
Radiooooo The dangerously immersive Radiooooo.com is one of those wonderful online resources that seems like the most obvious idea in the world once someone else has made it happen.
This is the secret, at once the most obvious and hidden: motherhood looks better from the inside.
The college and Halloween parties are at once the most obvious, irritating, and exhausting examples, but what of the more complex cases, the ones less easily attributable to the stupidity of youth?
The author quotes the director Brian De Palma — "There is just something about a woman and a knife" — and then wonders, "But what is that something?" without once considering the most obvious, phallic interpretation.
"There's always a romance about them," Ferguson had told the TechCrunch conference in London, hardly the most obvious place for the man who once instructed his players to forget Twitter and get themselves down to the library.
The most obvious choice would be Paul Ryan being drafted once again.
