Word: explicitness
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...achieving authentic eroticism in such an embarassingly direct art as film is nothing to be sniffed at. And at a time when most enlightened filmmakers expend their energies on explicit violence, Bertolucci's attempt to explore the much more human warfare of sexuality is itself significant. The pre-opening reputation of The Last Tango, and the controversy which now surrounds it, should thus not be seen solely as the result of hucksterism...
Nixon's policy toward Latin America is turning away from the explicit purposes of the Alliance. In his first policy speech, given on Oct. 31, 1969, he maintained that social and economic progress would henceforth depend more on the initiatives of Latin Americans. Nixon also sees the answer to Latin America's problems through economic development. Furthermore, he recommended that the ceiling on military sales be raised to $150 million for 1972, though between 1966 and 1970, sales had averaged only $38 million...
...case challenging Texas' school-finance system, Justice Lewis Powell wrote that "education is not among the rights afforded explicit protection under our Constitution." He further contended that "where wealth is involved the Equal Protection Clause does not require absolute equality or precisely equal advantages." Potter Stewart, who provided the critical fifth vote, explained that the "clause is offended only by laws that are invidiously discriminatory-only by classifications that are wholly arbitrary or capricious." Although all the Justices agreed that the current system is a mess, the majority felt that changes should be made by state legislatures, while Dissenter...
...leaving the Sunday matinee performance of Last Tango in Paris had emerged trying to hide the impact of the film behind the trivial concerns of an entertainment mentality. Was the film "good?" Did you like Brando's acting? Isn't Bertolucci a marvelous director? Was it, heh-heh, too explicit for you? Then, talk of what to do this evening, where to go next week -- a rapid shift of the attention that left no time for emotions to sink in. Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park, re-running the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent...
Kiely made an explicit recognition of the conflicts between administrative order and academic idealism when he recently wrote, "a professor of English who becomes a dean is bound to become either a hypocrite or a subversive because what he wants is Athens and Florence -- and not in ten years...