Word: explicitness
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...licks and smears of colored mud on cloth manage, seemingly without intervention from the viewer, to recompose themselves as hard shiny metal, warm flesh, wind-ruffled grass or the sweaty sheen of a horse's flank, all in the blink of an eye. But no artist seems as explicit about this legerdemain as Velazquez. At 20, as The Waterseller attests, he was already a virtuoso of appearances. To be able to record both the half-sunken splash of water and the light dew of condensation on the pottery jar in the + foreground was to have touched a level of skill...
This company, called Student Aid Services (SAS), was run by Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons and two senior aides, Assistant Dean Warren C. Reed and Director of Financial Aid James S. Miller. It was formed with the explicit approval of the Harvard administration...
Miller carries out this scheme almost too subtly, turning the City of Nets into a collection of pseudo movie sets, illuminated by camera lights. "I haven't made the references to Los Angeles too explicit, because that demythologizes it. I set Mahagonny in a film studio, but there is no attempt & to have real scenery. I don't press too hard...
...year at Harvard began with an innocent enough reminder. In all College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences registration packets appeared a pamphlet entitled, "Working Toward a Community of Equals." In response to requests by gay and lesbian students, the office of coeducation published the University's explicit policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and included resources and tips on "insensitive" behavior. Six houses, at the requests of their masters, named tutors for bisexual, gay and lesbian issues...
...year at Harvard began with an innocent enough reminder. In all College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences registration packets appeared a pamphlet entitled, "Working Toward a Community of Equals," In response to requests by gay and lesbian students, the office of coeducation published the University's explicit policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and included resources and tips on "insensitive" behavior. Six houses, at the requests of their masters, named tutors for bisexual, gay and lesbian issues...