Word: explicitness
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...Administration had long since reaffirmed a policy of abiding by the ABM treaty, and the terms of the treaty itself call for periodic review of compliance and applicability to new systems (the third review is scheduled for next year). Therefore Reagan's willingness to discuss differences of interpretation makes explicit something that was already implicit in U.S. policy. While Reagan may have touched the SDI piece, he has yet to move it forward...
...most beguiling, self-help books are in greatest demand: The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, 21 Days to Stop Smoking. On occasion, more calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit and graphic language which may be considered offensive"). The voices on the talking books may be stars, such as Michael York (Anna Karenina), Michael Learned (The Scarlet Letter) and Jason Robards (Anatomy of an Illness), or such authors as Ann Beattie, John Updike and Eudora Welty, reading from their own works. Even...
Only 38% of those polled agree that sexually explicit movies, magazines or books have "harmful effects upon people" (48% of the women do so, but just 27% of the men). More surprisingly, 45% believe that such materials either do not "change what people are like" or actually have positive effects on them. A plurality (47%) agree that sexually explicit materials "can be healthy as a marital aid" (44% consider this not true, while 9% are not sure). Similarly, 44% concur that pornography can "provide a useful outlet for people who are sexually frustrated" (41% disagree and 15% are uncertain...
...Sexually explicit movies, magazines...
...caused by Rambo." But many agree with the commission that porn is linked to sexual assault. NOW President Eleanor Smeal says that feminist work with rape victims and battered wives points up "the influence of violent pornography firsthand." But, she adds, "we don't want to suppress sexually explicit material that is not harmful or violent." The problem, similar to the one faced by the Meese Commission, is sorting out what is and is not damaging. Says Deborah Chalfie, a Washington attorney active in Feminists Against Pornography: "I still have problems with defining what we are trying...