Word: explicitness
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...slain Israeli soldiers, erasing the fact that nearly all of those killed have been Palestinian civilians. The Harvard Society of Arab Students (SAS) maintained a silent, dignified presence near the rally. Several of SAS' most active members are Jews; numerous Jews and Israelis stood with SAS in making an explicit point to display the names of Palestinians, Israeli civilians and the two Israeli soldiers killed while under detention...
...should be reading fairy tales, not fending off wolves. The fear, among parents and professionals alike, is that young girls who look like teenagers will be under intense pressure to act like teenagers. Childhood is short enough as it is, with kids bombarded from every direction by sexually explicit movies, rock lyrics, MTV videos and racy fashions. If young girls' bodies push them into adulthood before their hearts and minds are ready, what will be forever lost...
...represented range from naturalism to pure abstraction and the show's dimensions-12 artists by 3 rooms by 46 pieces-are enormous. There are big, colorful chunks, symmetrical and impassive, alongside incredibly detailed works with careful touches of color and fine line. The show holds itself together with an explicit appeal to the pursuit of beauty, to its indefinable, essential meaning in art. But isn't this intuitive when we talk about art? Isn't art, in some fundamental way, about beauty that gives us pleasure, heightens our senses, or transports...
...Maybe not a version as explicit, but think about it - a lot of gangster rap music videos are minstrel shows in themselves...
...together, to be sure, with vague promises - for instance, that the U.S. "would consult" over the next two weeks over restarting the peace process - offering very little by way of satisfying President Clinton's hope that the summit could revive comprehensive peace talks. But then the price of an explicit failure at the summit would have been to escalate the conflict, so once gathered the leaders had little choice but to fudge at least some of their differences...