Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abuse and incest disclose their darkest secrets to Oprah, Phil and Geraldo. Now a spate of game shows -- half a dozen currently on the air, with several more in the works -- are eavesdropping on the few private areas left for ordinary people: love, romance and -- in leering if not explicit terms...
...long tradition of representations of Bacchanalian dances, from the ancient Greeks through to Poussin. The color is almost as simple and emblematic as that of an Etruscan vase: blue sky, green billowing earth, red flesh inflected with deeper, Indian-red drawing. It could not be more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs for arched back, swollen belly, prancing, dragging, reaching. One clue to this is the complicated knot formed by the crossing legs...
...know, there's been no explicit effort to change the progression," Rudenstine said...
Indeed, the structure of network television serves to keep entertainment from wandering too far from the safe political center. Advertisers, for example, shy away from any program that takes a controversial political stand or gets too explicit about sensitive subjects like homosexuality. No leading character in a prime-time TV series since Maude has had an abortion, mainly because of advertiser skittishness. "There's no issue today more contentious," says Joel Segal, executive vice president at McCann-Erickson/ New York. "Nobody is interested in alienating large blocs of viewers...
Just beneath the Republican rhetoric against the Democratic "big liberal ticket" is a steady rumble about "traditional family values," an expression that G.O.P. strategists will helpfully make explicit -- as long as they remain anonymous. When Vice President Dan Quayle said three weeks ago that Bush "is willing to stand up for basic values, rather than treating all life-style choices as morally equivalent," an aide helpfully translated for reporters that life-styles meant homosexuality. "When we talk about family values, part of it will be to point out that Clinton went out to California, had a fund raiser...