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Word: explicit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...much explicit sexuality. Too much implicit innuendo. Too much immorality. Too much controversy. Free expression is fine and dandy, MTV officials explained, but this time, Madonna has gone too far. At least that's what our advertisers tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MTV, Don't Preach | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

...explicit sexuality goes, it's pretty tame. A nipple here, a nuzzle there--we're not talking hard-core pornography. As far as implicit innuendo goes, there's nothing too shocking, either. A bisexual fantasy here, an S&M fantasy there--fantasies about consenting adults never hurt anyone, not even Rev. Wildmon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MTV, Don't Preach | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

...demand: Iraq must get out of Kuwait. But whether, and to what extent, the other members will continue to back American ideas on how to achieve that goal -- especially as Washington comes closer and closer to converting what has always been an implicit threat of war to a very explicit one -- remains uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf It's All in the Wording | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Mughoho's definition of the "western world" is not explicit, but we must also refute his claim that "the distribution of foreign students is skewed towards the western world." More than half (53) of the foreign students in the freshman class are from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Oceania or Eastern Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Article Misrepresents International Admissions | 12/1/1990 | See Source »

...will invite more such outrages around the world and give Saddam an unacceptable degree of control over the lifeblood of the world economy. (To denigrate the importance of oil with talk of "cheap gas" is itself a cheap debating tactic.) From the very day of the invasion, the explicit objective of U.S. policy has been not just deterrence of further Iraqi expansion but also the rollback of Iraq from Kuwait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Bum Rap on Bush | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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