Word: explicitness
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...song is rife with explicit references to sex and drugs...
...delegates of America's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, kept very busy in Orlando, Fla. They elected the 16 million-member Convention's first baby-boomer president, James Merritt, 47. They announced a couple of headline-grabbing conservative policies: support for the death penalty and an explicit ban on women pastors. But for all its productivity, the meeting was awfully quiet. This was because most of the usually rancorous, relatively liberal opposition sat it out. The rebels, who call themselves the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will also meet in Orlando. They will be lodged at Disney World, enemy territory...
...potential money and fame generally don't hurt. That was the explicit draw of Making the Band, the ABC reality show that chronicles the auditioning and training of aspiring boy band O-Town. "It was the sweetest," says Trevor Penick, 20, of getting picked for the show. "Just like The Real World, you know?" Indeed. Some seasons, The Real World has seemed like a postgraduate program for aspiring actors, models and singers, with more than 35,000 applicants a year. "The ideal candidate [for a VTV show] would be a strong narcissist," says Atlanta psychologist Robert Simmermon, a fellow...
Teens and adolescents are more likely to encounter sexually explicit conversations on the Internet than parents may realize. A new congressional study has found that 1 in 5 kids online has received an invitation to engage in sexual behavior. Incidents ranged from a 13-year-old girl's being asked her bra size in a chat room to kids' being pursued by strangers' wanting to meet for sex off-line. Few children have reported the incidents to their parents. The study advises parents to remind kids that online buddies can be predators...
...Arts First weekend is highlighted by controversy surrounding a performance by Marc R. Talusan '97, the "Dancing Deviant." Due to the -show's sexually explicit content, the Office for the Arts denies Talusan funding...