Word: explicitness
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...subscribers of this fact. Bush has danced around the issue of same-sex marriage for months, attempting to allow conservative analysts the time to calculate his political strategy. His State of the Union address this year offered a hint at what was to come, but shied away from any explicit statements...
This dispiriting experience was not merely a failure of Mel Gibson's art, but it also seemed to be evidence of a growing American affliction: we are addicted to the explicit and then quickly inured to it. We are in need of ever more shocking images to stimulate our attention, impervious to nuance or subtlety. There are political implications to this. Democracy isn't easy in such an environment. "The things that shock are the things that get through," says John DiIulio, former director of the Bush Administration's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. "Meanwhile, serious consideration...
...electorate, rejected the passionate Howard Dean in favor of John Kerry, a candidate nuanced to the point of paralysis. In the dictionary, passion is defined as "suffering" first and then as "emotion ... as opposed to reason." Kerry isn't emotional, and he certainly isn't addicted to the explicit. In the year of The Passion, he stands as a quixotic reproach to the prevailing sensationalism, an unintentional rebel against our shock-a-minute culture...
...subscribers of this fact. Bush has danced around the issue of same-sex marriage for months, attempting to allow conservative analysts the time to calculate his political strategy. His State of the Union address this year offered a hint at what was to come, but shied away from any explicit statements...
...Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, has created an airtight legal license that allows would-be copyright holders to attach to their works a variety of freedoms. For example, an author might attach to one of their articles the permission to reprint with attribution, but without explicit consent, for noncommercial purposes. Currently the licenses can allow for such things as sampling of multimedia or requiring that people only release derivative works under the same sort of open structure, but new educational agreements are also in the works...