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...obvious. What is accomplished by being specific? A reader's imagination is a more potent descriptive power than any author has. When everything is told, what you're left with is pretty crude and commonplace. The love scenes in Anna Karenina are infinitely more intimate than any explicit sex scene I can recall...
...ability to guide young actresses from obscurity to nudity, Vadim usually displays them backside up amidst a pile of sheets. In Circle, with five lissome beauties at his disposal (Fonda, Catherine Spaak, Anna Karina, Francine Bergé, Marie Dubois), he simply varies the routine with a good deal of explicit groping, button tugging and lifting of skirts...
...this film the "Negro Problem" leaps out of the abstract and becomes the problems of knowing what's worth trying for, and when you've lost--your problem and my problem intensified and made cruelly explicit. Duff Anderson can't avoid putting himself to the test because he is always on the line, and he is kept there by the losers...
Concise & Limpid. Natural law dictates the relationship between men and nations. But these relation ships must be ratified and established by human law, and Pope John applauded that fundamental of Western democracy, government by constitution. Rejecting government by coercion, the Pope endorsed the explicit definition of the rights and duties of governments and citizens in every nation's basic law, including a charter of fundamental human rights written "in concise and limpid phraseology...
...movie after movie offers ever more explicit sex, their teasing ads continue to nudge the boundaries of good taste. On the Los Angeles Times, those perimeters have been patrolled for the past four years by a two-man screening board that has let few slips show. Now the Times is determined to mount a tougher guard than ever...