Word: explicitness
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...current City Council--which includes three new members--has adopted an explicit anti-Harvard stance, blasting the University for its real estate development and for its failure to implement a living wage of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees...
...cartoon, titled "Betty in a Wet Fret," was posted on the Web last week. It features the Betty character commenting to Veronica upon seeing a shirtless Archie, and then making a sexually explicit comment...
None of these questions are explicit, much less answered, which is the whole idea of the chairs, of the memorial, of modern memorials in general. As America anticipates the first Memorial Day of the new century, the country's most recent projects to honor the dead are becoming ways to understand itself. In the past, memorials in America, like those of prior civilizations, tended to be stone-made celebrations with simple purposes--to inspire, consecrate and glorify in the name of national stability and grand prospects. History was portrayed as success. Grant's Tomb, the men on horseback, the male...
This story of the 1990 obscenity case over a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit nearly got an NC-17 rating, until the network cut the screen time for Mapplethorpe's haunting, sexually explicit photos. If only it had shown them longer--for 90 minutes, say--and ditched the rest of this mechanical, insultingly didactic placard. James Woods begins playing besieged Cincinnati museum director Dennis Barrie less as a saint than a fish-out-of-SoHo aesthete. But the nuance is soon lost in a film that wants to be an agitprop documentary, interrupting its storyline with interviews of mostly pro-Mapplethorpe notables...
DIED. ELMER GERTZ, 93, crusading Chicago civil rights attorney who helped Nathan Leopold, accused with Richard Loeb of young Bobby Franks' murder in 1924's "Crime of the Century," win parole in 1958; defended Henry Miller's explicit novel Tropic of Cancer against censorship; and overturned the murder conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby; of pneumonia; in Chicago...