Word: explicitly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before. It used to be assumed that people were free to joke about their own kind (with some license for black comedians to talk about how white people dance). Crossing those lines was the province of the occasional "socially conscious artist," like Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce, who was explicit about his goals: in Bruce's words, to repeat "'niggerniggernigger' until the word [didn't] mean anything anymore...
...science teacher charged with teaching evolution in the classroom. The trial was the first of its kind to be sensationalized in the media through the radio, and it was the nation’s first widespread debate on the teaching of evolution in public schools. The show took no explicit stance on the issue, but provided insight into the changing state of science education in America throughout the century. Headlining the show was television personality and activist Ed Asner, well-known for his role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” as the prosecution attorney...
...Tarantino does offer an explicit poetic reference: one of the girls is supposed to give a lap dance to the first guy who comes up to her and quotes lines from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (The QT version of that poem might end: "The road is kewl for this white trash / But I've a Challenger to smash /And miles to go before I crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse...
...momentum leads only to frustration. At the end, Phillips hands the reader a non-resolution in which a markedly older and less enchanting Angelica openly (and annoyingly) vacillates between the several possible explanations to the mystery. The novel flattens out to become everything it should not have become: material, explicit, and heavy-handed. Phillips writes of the ghostly nature of life, the spectral view that floats and inhabits each of the characters in the novel, and can never be quite identified and verified. There is a delicacy and frustrating resilience to that specter, that force that maintains the movement...
...least 35 professors are backing an amendment that would explicitly include “the study of the past” in the legislation implementing the proposed new general education curriculum. The amendment will likely be taken up at next Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Along with nine other amendments released to professors yesterday, the history proposal represents significant faculty concern about a general education program that Harvard’s leaders are hoping will be approved by professors by the end of the academic year. The amendment aims both to insert...