Word: explicitly
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It’s a very blatant and explicit performance—the audience is fully aware that one actress is playing two very different characters, which suggests the ability of each person to manipulate their own performance and in a similar way. The play expresses the idea that political and gender identities are constructed via performance and aesthetics. It also explores how people so often define themselves and create performances in reaction to their perceived opposition...
...Massachusetts Bay Colony, he wrote a charge to his band of settlers, a charter for their new beginnings. He offered what he considered “a compass to steer by” – a “model,” but not a set of explicit orders. Winthrop instead sought to focus his followers on the broader significance of their project, on the spirit in which they should undertake their shared work. I aim to offer such a “compass” today, one for us at Harvard, and one that I hope will...
...Camus’ “The Outsider”), while women tended toward Austen and Brontë novels focusing on social relationships. Men and women have differences in erotica preferences as well: studies have shown that women react more, let’s say, strongly to sexually explicit stories featuring dominant female protagonists, as opposed to dominant males. But not only do women read differently, they read more. At least anecdotally, it seems that women are the overwhelming majority of purchasers and readers of self-help books. In the years since the Larry Summers/innate differences fall-out, a number...
...current capitalist moment. “The pressure to be 24/7 hot is very intense and very stressful,” she says. “There is a premium for perfection and no one is perfect.” Even though feminism isn’t an explicit theme of “Learning to Drive,” Pollitt defends the word. “If you ask a non-feminist what they stand for, it will turn out that they believe all the things a feminist believes in. And yet, this word has been successfully demonized...
...years ago, Lee won a Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, a less explicit but no less passionate story of two gay cowboys. He took that cachet and banked it on a Mandarin-language drama that has earned the Motion Picture Association's NC-17 rating (no children under 17). That rating will keep Lust, Caution out of many cinemas because lots of theater owners won't show films with a rating harder than R. Nor, if current standards hold, will the dvd be available at Wal-Mart or Blockbuster. But the $83 million theatrical take of Brokeback makes some...