Word: explicitly
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Well, let's consider what sexual harassment is, starting with the grossest, most obvious case, the kind in which there is both "touching" and an explicit quid pro quo: Do this, and you'll get an A. Come in here with me for a moment, and then we'll talk about that promotion or that bonus or whether you're going to have a job tomorrow. Even a Senator, I should think, would see the crime in this. At best, it's sex for pay. At worst, it's a nonviolent variant of rape in which sex is extracted under...
American Psycho is one of the most violent, sexually explicit and profane novels ever to appear in the United States. Because the book treats a topic which most Americans feel uncomfortable discussing, it has proven an excellent target for both the "sensitivity" and "decency" police. American Psycho is the literary equivalent of a snuff film...
...hearings--which contained explicit sexual references--were fully televised over the weekend, and were the subject of news shows, commentary and private discussion over the three days...
...third thing we say is we cannot be diverted from what is most important about this act of vandalism by debating whether it was a prank or an act of racism or anti-Semitism. The absence of some of the explicit evidence of a hate crime, such as slogans or swastikas, does not alter the implicit experience of many who feel the consequences of the crime most directly...
...That's the 64-dollar question. It's perfectly obvious that the Court is not going to vindicate individual rights in the dramatic way it did in the years from 1957 on. To the contrary, the present chief justice has quite an explicit agenda to roll back many of the rights that were established in the '50s, '60s and '70s. That's already happened to a considerable extent in criminal law--coerced confessions, habeas corpus, search and seizure and capital punishment. It hasn't happened in the speech and press area, with the possible exception of the decision last term...