Word: explicitly
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More obviously explicit, "Last Tango in Paris" by now owes much of its fame to its sex scenes--still somewhat jarring today--despite a notably wrenching performance by Marlon Brando as a dejected, desperate husband. The movie was immediately banned in the home country of the Italian director, Bernardo Bertolucci, for being "obscene, indecent, and catering to the lowest instincts of libido." But because of Brando's talent and, of course, the sex, the film was a world-wide hit, despite one near-rape scene and the subjecting of the female interest (Maria Schneider) to various sexual whims...
What gets a movie the dread NC-17 rating these days? Normally the reasons children are forbidden to see films are explicit sex and spectacular spasms of violence. In the case of Showgirls, though, the list of no-nos might read, "Obscene level of incompetence, excessive inanity in the story line, gross negligence of the viewer's intelligence, a prurient interest in the quick buck...
...government and members of Indian tribes, it may disturb citizens who believe all Americans to be equal under law. But few other American groups have warred as sovereign nations against the U.S. government; and none, in return for laying down its arms and accepting life on reservations, has received explicit guarantees of its well-being. The 800 or more treaties signed with various tribes, sporadically upheld by the Supreme Court under a loose philosophy of "trusteeship," obligate the government to maintain a reasonable level of education and health among tribal members and to protect their resources...
...appalled by the rise of sexually transmitted disease, by the wave of teenage pregnancies, by violent crime. Yet we drench ourselves in depictions of explicit sex and crime on television, in movies and in pop music. Language that I heard--and used--only on all-male Army posts is now scripted into the mouths of women, even children...
Lobbyists have charged for years that D'Amato and his staff use crude and even threatening fund-raising tactics, drawing explicit links between contributions and pending legislation in a way that's prohibited by federal law. The charges, first leveled in a 1986 Wall Street Journal article, persist today. Two lobbyists, who insist on anonymity because they fear losing access to D'Amato, have told TIME that D'Amato staff members solicited contributions from them this year during conversations about pending legislation. "It's raw; it's distasteful," one of the lobbyists says. "Al's guys reach through the phone...