Word: explicitness
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Lane shows no connection, implicit or explicit, between the shooting spree--which Prime Minister Begin promptly and officially condemned--and government policy. The Begin government, of course, is the one that concluded the peace treaty with Egypt, and the one that is risking its political life by forcibly dislodging militant settlers from the Sinai in order to meet the terms of that treaty. These are hardly examples of extremism...
...enlightened right--the right of Wall Street and the Business School--already has its plan. As expounded by Felix Rohatyn, a New York investment banker, and the others of Business Week, remdus- trialization" would relay not only supply-side whimsy, but explicit federal allocation of capital. A renovated Reconstruction Finance Corporation would direct huge subsidies to promising growth industries and bail out a few more important declining industries. In both cases, however, reindustrialization funds depend on workers agreeing to wage restraint. And according to Business Week, "destabilizing" goals such as affirmative action and environmental repair must be deferred...
THEROUX'S NOT A BAD writer, and judging from the bestseller lists the story told in The Mosquito Coast, if not the explicit allegory, has quite an appeal to modern audiences. But if Theroux had really been interested in probing the soul of America, it would have been more revealing to explain how a character like Allie Fox managed to survive the ravages of an undisciplined society. To understand what's wrong with America. John Uplike's probably a better bet. His latest, Rabbit is Rich, stays within the society of inflation that Theroux can only deal with by escaping...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday of the amendment, "There is not a drug problem at Harvard, but we wanted to be more explicit about the consequences of the College not being a sanctuary for drug...
While the characters are shallow, everything else reeks of over-kill. The sex scenes are unnecessarily explicit, and Schrader revels in giving us the gamut on perversion from bestiality and incest to kink and sado-masochism. Schrader also isn't much interested in generating suspense. When Irena suddenly wanders through a surreal Cajun bayou, the audience is too confused to be worried. Occasionally Schrader resorts to the cheap device of startling the viewer--something appears suddenly or moves when it shouldn't. All in all, Cat People is as imaginative as coitus interruptus--and about as subtle...