Word: explicitness
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...Hampshire prep school assured worried parents that no students appeared in the confiscated materials. But court documents released last week showed otherwise: the teacher, Larry Lane Bateman, had surreptitiously videotaped undressed students in a campus dormitory and assigned other students in his charge to make sexually explicit tapes of themselves, which he kept. Bateman, 51, is to be sentenced this week...
More important, and more problematic, Bush issued the first explicit threat to use military power in the Balkans. In a letter to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic that was purposely leaked, Bush bluntly stated that "in the event of conflict in Kosovo caused by Serbian action, the United States will be prepared to employ military force" -- and not just "against the Serbians in Kosovo" but also "in Serbia proper." Kosovo is a province where, it is widely feared, Milosevic might start Bosnia-style "cleansing" of the ethnic Albanians, who constitute 90% of the population, an action that could well ignite...
...suggests that the French, at the twilight of their long rule in Indochina, saw themselves not as the region's colonizers -- ravaging its natural and human resources -- but as its foster parents, nourishing a lovely, lorn child with the civilizing bounty of French culture. That, anyway, is Indochine's explicit metaphor. Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s and the women's competing love for a handsome French officer (Vincent...
...simply, the budget deficit, not to mention the $4 trillion national debt, symbolizes the daily injustice perpetrated by our federal government against every young, honest citizen of this country. We are currently running a budget deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars. Allow me to be explicit: The federal government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars more each year than it receives in tax revenue...
Compromise is excusable--in fact, it is essential if he expects to get anything done. But indecision is not, especially regarding an explicit campaign promise to a group of people whose support for him would have been ambivalent but for his quiet reassurances. Now that the election is over, we liberals want to see Clinton demonstrate his liberalism...