Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the fall. L.A. is, after all, the world's easiest satirical target. Moreover, Altman and co- screenwriter Frank Barhydt are adapting -- freely commingling is a better description -- short stories by the late Raymond Carver. These have quite a different bleakness about them and are, anyway, resistant to the implicit cultural generalizations the movie tries to impose on them. Carver was content to capture discrete moments of confusion and loss in everyday, mostly lower- middle-class lives, rendered in spare, sparsely populated stories. His manner rigorously excluded direct emotional comment on the behavior of his people. Or, for that matter...
...recommitment to family requires new practices. Social sciences show that values do not fly on their own wings; they must be embodied in our rituals. Supervows may serve as one such sociological device. If it becomes chic to state "We have a supervow!" -- with the implicit question "And how about you?" hanging in the air -- we will be on the way to valuing marriage and thus family more highly, without relying on punitive laws. Supervows alone will not carry the day, but they will help mend the American family...
...Italy whose people have named their plagued government Tangentopoli, or "Pay-Off City," many are implicated in the corporation, and everyone is suspect. Not unlike the Sicilian tradition of the family so potent in the mafiosi, an implicit code of honor in Italy puts those who have broken the trust of the people permanently out of trust. The recent deaths may only express a more distasteful realization of this tradition...
Such calculated shock tactics seem qualitatively different from the methods of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island or even the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Classical children's literature is full of overt and implicit terrors because some gifted authors could remember and portray a child's view, those feelings of awe, uncertainty and fear inspired by the world outside. Fright requires no invention; conquering it through language does...
Voters trickled away from the Republicans because the Republicans seemed to lack initiative and drive, because the GOP wasn't taking an active approach toward tackling the nation's problems. Bush deserters didn't just vote against the status quo. They voted against the implicit Republican pledge to "elect me because I won't do anything...