Word: explicitness
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Spectacular successes like these have been based largely on a Faustian handshake: the company's willingness to gamble on edgy, explicit music made by edgy, unpredictable performers. The artists include Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose resume includes a drug conviction, and Manson, whose malevolent twist includes such ditties as Tourniquet and Irresponsible Hate Anthem. Their discs have attracted millions of young buyers fascinated by the music's aggression and X-rated imagery...
...Ganz says the ADL considers Holocaust denial with or without explicit anti-Semitism to be hate...
...large it is a cloak for anti-Semitism," he says. "The far right by and large has taken great pains to strip away explicit racism and couch arguments in pseudo-academic terms. They don't talk much about satanic Jewish bankers running the world but that is the subtext...
...wasn't explicit about whether the Chinese government actually did something wrong in Tiananmen Square," said Nikhil Wagle '99, who woke up early Saturday morning to watch the televised broadcast of the speech in his room...
...moderation is welcome. However, balance can mean many things. Even whole-language teachers now maintain that their approach is balanced, because, after all, they do address phonics, albeit in an ad hoc fashion. There are elements of phonics instruction, though, that cannot be diluted; it must be systematic and explicit, if the full benefit is to be derived from it. To deprive children of that benefit is destructive. As one of Carol Avery's fourth-graders said to her, "Writing and reading give you a life...