Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states. The Massachusetts attorney general has started an investigation of term-paper mills. California's State Colleges Chief Counsel Richard Grey has prepared legislation aimed at putting them out of business. At Harvard, General Counsel Daniel Steiner is considering suits against all term-paper companies for breaching "an implicit educational contract" between colleges and students...
Ever since King Kong aged enough to be a "classic," aficionados have argued over its implicit motifs. Kong's fall from the world's largest phallic symbol has led some to term the film a parable of unfulfilled sexuality. Others, noting his blackness and her whiteness, have damned the movie as racist. (Aside from its more abstruse symbolism, the film has a Chinese ship's cook named--you guessed it--Charlie. And Kong's New York is devoid of blacks, and his Asian island natives are Africans.) Not to mention the symbolic revolt of the worker, as played by exploited...
...assertion of an eventual goal of complete military withdrawal from the island. That had never been so bluntly stated, and was sure to cause fresh tremors on already edgy Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia. But in fact such a pullback from an essentially untenable position has always been implicit in Nixon's Guam Doctrine, and in the Administration's view, reiterated in the communique, that the problem of Taiwan is ultimately one for the Chinese to settle peacefully among themselves...
...Clowns. On the beach, they will later encounter Picasso's "Seated Bather" (1930), a skeletai nightmare perched at the water's edge, turning the earlier symbol of the beach as social wasteland into the psychic boundary between the conscious and sub-conscious. Picasso's surrealism, captured also in the implicit and explicit imagery of the theme of the artist and his studio, or in his "Girl before a Mirror", raised the question of identity through images now hauntingly familiar from Bergman's Persona; the struggles of the psyche distorting the very appearance of a person's face...
...Indians are prepared to hold discussions, but they have made it clear to Washington that they will insist on certain implicit conditions: the U.S. should 1) not resume arms sales to Pakistan, 2) recognize Bangladesh, and 3) most important, accept New Delhi's view that the Indian-Pakistani balance of power no longer exists on the subcontinent. In return, the Indian government is prepared to offer guarantees to Washington that it supports the principle of an independent Pakistan and will refrain from any kind of interference in Pakistani affairs...