Word: explicitness
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...with the P.R.I. "He looked like somebody clean," said Isidoro Pete Gonzalez, a former opposition voter in Tijuana. "He's not contaminated yet." Said Zedillo the next day: "We are a party plainly capable of being competitive." In an interview with TIME, he noted, "The party has to be explicit about its rules of internal democracy," which might include primaries or conventions to select candidates rather than having the bosses do the picking...
...central argument of the report, entitled "Slipping Towards Segregation," is that the policies of a school district undergoing integration on its own--that is, without order from court decisions or explicit laws--may have limited effects on demographic change...
...Memphis, Tenn. "This case would never have gone to trial in California," said Richard Williams, defense attorney for Robert and Carleen Thomas, who founded the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif. He may be right, since the case was built on the issue of whether the sexually explicit material violated "community standards." The couple plan to appeal, and the case could make it to the Supreme Court...
Federal prosecutors are going after a California couple charged with transmitting obscenities through an Internet computer bulletin board -- because the explicit photos and text they sent offended people in Tennessee. The case began this week in Memphis, and many suspect it may reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Why? It's the first serious test of whether obscenity laws based on community standards still make sense when pornography flows through cyberspace. If convicted, Robert and Carleen Thomas, who run the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif., face 50 years in prison. BTW: It's no surprise the charges arose...
...laugh track, no sobbing violins, viewers had to decide for themselves how to react to this bizarre and compelling summer series. How, for example, to decipher the soul behind a face as beautiful, iconic and unknowable as O.J. Simpson's? On Friday he listened to the coroner's droning, explicit testimony of the wounds that caused Nicole Simpson's death. Raw emotion played on his features, but what emotion? Shock? Remorse? Fury? We have spent thousands of hours watching cop shows and love stories, intuiting feelings from faces. A glance at O.J. proved that there are some secrets even...