Word: explicitness
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...wasn't explicit, maybe it's implicit. I have a rather reverential feeling about the Constitution and the judges who interpret it, so perhaps that was the subliminal intent...
Like the old Joy, the revised volume is illustrated with alarmingly explicit drawings, though these are newly done. In place of the hirsute hippie male (de rigueur in the '70s) and his female counterpart are an ordinary-looking beardless youth who might pass for a stockbroker and a female partner who could be your lawyer. Gone too is the collection of superfluous erotic Japanese prints depicting contortions of improbable physicality; in their place is a portfolio of "art" photos, which are at least fathomable...
Melville injects these environs with a superstitious aura. Frequently, it is explicit--a fake phantom in "I Do Not Take Take Messages from Dead People," or the black magic of an obeah man in "The Conversion of Millicent Vernon." More often, she only hints at spectral shadows--voodoo, zombies and the occult in general--to supply that uniquely West Indian flavor...
...impossible without more complete knowledge of the attitudes and behavior of young people. But that information may be hard to come by. Last month the Bush Administration blocked a comprehensive survey of adolescent sexual practices after critics charged that its questions about oral and anal sex were too explicit for children. Others greeted the cancellation with outrage. "We have a terrible deficit of knowledge about sexual behavior as a whole in this country," says Dr. Hook. "We don't know if youngsters in low-risk areas are just not having sex or if the virus hasn't got there...
...real financial concerns. All too often, other life-style busybodies are motivated by sheer bloody-mindedness. A persistent neo-Prohibitionist movement has added to the woes of the nation's wine industry by pressuring the Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms into demanding ever more prominent and explicit health-warning labels on bottles. (One irate California publicist responded by labeling some Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon "Chateau le Warning" and putting the Surgeon General's injunctions right up front. The BATF was not amused...