Word: explicitly
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...Kong director Yonfan's love story of two women (played by Japan's Rie Miyazawa and Taiwan's Joey Wong) in a Suzhou noble house. The film is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The women don't make their sexual affinity explicit; but one can always feel the breath of the other's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Seeing Peony Pavilion is like getting high on the opium smoke a beautiful woman exhales as she gazes into your eyes and says, "Maybe...
...That's what computers are meant for: to manage lots of information, including details as to how consumers want their data used. True, many users, if you were to ask them to actively consent to the use of their data, simply wouldn't bother. The process of making an explicit choice is a burden for customers as well as for merchants...
...Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian relationship with her new master's mannish cousin Rong (Joey Wong, the premier ghost diva of '80s Hong Kong cinema). They don't make their sexual affinity explicit; as Jade sings in one of her ballads, "Words are not needed in such a beautiful silence." This is the love that need not speak its name...
...trial. At first, bureau officials blamed the snafu on an outdated computer system, but last week Freeh pointed the finger at his own hand-picked field commanders and middle managers. "I think there is a cultural problem here in not taking seriously the very clear and explicit commands that were given," he told a Senate subcommittee...
Other authors in this genre also hold out hope for lifelong love and lust. In her introduction to the often gaspingly explicit Still Doing It: Women & Men over 60 Write About Their Sexuality, edited by Joani Blank (Down There Press), Eleanor (Ranger) Hamilton writes, "When I was a student, training to become a marriage counselor, I asked a lovely old lady in her late sixties, 'When does sexual desire stop?' Her immediate response was, 'I'll let you know.' Her answer confirmed what I have known now for 40 years--namely, that we are sexual beings from birth until death...