Word: explicitness
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...upholding a tough Ohio law that makes personal possession of child pornography a crime. Writing for the majority, Justice White said that Ohio legitimately sought to "destroy a market for the exploitative use of children." The case, which arose when Clyde Osborne, 66, was prosecuted for possessing sexually explicit photographs of young males, brought forth a stern dissent from Justice William Brennan. "Mr. Osborne's pictures may be distasteful, but the Constitution guarantees both his right to possess them privately and his right to avoid punishment under an overbroad...
...meantime, minority activists should not allow the minority hiring crusade to divert them from other pressing issues--issues which do lend themselves to student pressure on the administration and which are susceptible to quick solutions. Specifically, student activists should demand that Harvard immediately eliminate its explicit policy of giving preference in admissions to children of alumni, or "legacies." Legacy status improves an applicant's chances of getting into Harvard by almost three times...
Certainly the brouhaha did not hurt attendance at the exhibit. It drew 4,000 people on opening day and more than 20,000 in its first week, despite a 30- to 45-minute wait to see the notorious XYZ collection of explicit photos of gay sex acts. If the current pace keeps up -- and it shows no sign of slackening -- the display will easily break the record of 29,000 viewers set by a computer-art exhibit in 1987. After Barrie was indicted, a federal judge ruled that law-enforcement officials could not interfere with the exhibit until the gallery...
Arguing that pornography often contains racist overtones, Dines-Levi also said that makers of sexually explicit materials often view minority women as "cheap" and isolated from the protests of feminist activists...
Matthew M. McDonald '92, a member of Peninsula's "council," is much more explicit in his advocacy of legislating The Truth...