Word: implicitly
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Perhaps he is merely acting out the implicit logic of the 1933 film of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man, of which Paul Verhoeven's new movie is an entirely unacknowledged remake. Both Caine and Claude Rains' Jack Griffin find it easier to attain the ectoplasmic state than to return from it; both become increasingly megalomaniac as a result of the scientific process they embrace. The big difference between the two pictures is attitude. James Whale, who directed the first movie, made a kind of moral comedy of the situation--lots of befuddled English country types doing dialect jokes--but with...
...careful "Renewing America's Purpose. Together." The real leitmotif--pushed by the campaign for many weeks--is much edgier: "George Bush Is a Different Kind of Republican." Mimicking almost exactly the language Bill Clinton used to stiff-arm his party's liberals eight years ago, it is an implicit sniff at the old kind of Republicans who will be gathered that week in Philadelphia...
...just what Alan Greenspan wants it to. According to figures released Friday, personal spending, the engine of the boom, rose just 0.2 percent in May - the same level as the revised April numbers. Personal income, the engine of personal spending, rose at a slower rate. And the report's implicit price deflator, one of the Fed head's favorite inflation indicators, was unchanged in May for the second straight month. If this keeps up, Greenspan could sit on his hands for the rest of the year...
Despite its apparent simplicity, this case encompasses myriad legal issues. The Boy Scouts' argument, for example, was prefaced with the idea that gay people are not welcome in their ranks because their presence indicates an implicit approval of a gay lifestyle, which, according to Scout spokesmen, is in direct violation of the group's identity. The Court agreed; their ruling established that as long as the Boy Scouts believe that Dale's sexual identity renders him incompatible with the group's mission, they are free to exclude him. It does not matter, apparently, that Dale has proven himself...
Unstated but implicit throughout the novel is the sense that life is teaching Jim that he will someday have to leave Aliceville, his mother, the uncles who tried to fill the place left by his dead father. Preserving the present moment is as impossible as making the ocean hold still. Grownups who dwell overlong on such a thought may be accused, with some justice, of rank sentimentality. But such folks can watch this knowledge, in Jim the Boy, dawn on a child and remember or imagine their own ages of innocence...