Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is very explicit evidence of life," Sagan noted, "but they could probably think of possible natural origins for the methane...
Also much more sex and nudity. But in the new films, sex is rarely prurient. If it is sometimes startlingly explicit, it is nevertheless unself-conscious and often functional to the plot?or what plot there is. It is also unstereotyped. People make love on the couch (Georgy Girl), in cars (Alfie), and in a susurrous sea of blue backdrop paper (Blow-Up). And the girl hardly ever waits any more to be asked; she communicates sex like a banner headline...
Slowly and subtly, a transference begins; the actress cannot, or will not, speak about her husband and son; the nurse cannot stop speaking-about herself. In explicit detail, the nurse describes an erotic beach encounter with an unknown boy, and the pregnancy and abortion that followed. Without realizing it, the babbling nurse has become the patient and the silently listening patient the nurse...
...Time Inc. spent $5,000,000 to keep LIFE from dying of success before the magazine finally turned the profit corner in 1939, when its circulation had reached more than 2,000,000. LIFE, which hardly needed extra attention, nevertheless got it when it published a frank and explicit (for that day) photographic account of the birth of a baby. Roy Larsen, who had moved to LIFE, submitted to arrest to test a ban, was acquitted in court...
...long, critical view of Powell on his podium. That "character is fate" is a cliché; the fate of Powell's characters is, like a capricious bomb, historical chance. There is really no sense in any of his creatures except their determination to make their folly explicit in their own words and actions. They live to die. Yet for many years to come, they will also live in the compelling echo of Powell's funereal dance for a dead generation...