Word: explicitness
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...Explicit sex! Full frontal nudity! Rampant blood and gore! No, network TV still does not allow such things into the American home. But ABC, CBS and NBC have grabbed viewers' attention this fall with a surprising amount of racy material and have prompted new questions about whether network standards of "good taste" are starting to crumble...
...start with recruitment. Coaches of teams that do perennially well invariably start off by inviting the prospective student-athlete to Harvard to stay for a day or two with a veteran member of the team. Even if no explicit instructions are given, the veteran knows that the high school junior or senior is supposed to be given the hard sell: Harvard is great, wonderful; the coach...
...Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum (Morrow; $25) is not for fair-weather bakers but an exhaustive scripture on lavish baking. If the recipes are brilliantly explicit, it is because Beranbaum has spent years teaching, and knows where amateurs usually go wrong. Basic cakes and fillings are included, along with how-to's on decoration. Among her creations are cakes that look like pinecones, forests and dotted Swiss cascades. There are even a few low- cholesterol recipes...
...Joseph Lieberman, than to the his being abandoned and ostracized by the conservative wing of Connecticut's Republican Party, which has never been thrilled by his outspokenly liberal views. In fact, William F. Buckley Jr. and other prominent conservatives in the state bankrolled Lieberman's campaign and made it explicit that they were doing so in order to pave the way for a politician with appropriate conservative credentials to defeat Lieberman...
...miniseries progressed, the focus swung away from politics to the steamy sex scandal of Crane's relationship with Fallon and their tendency towards kinky sexual behavior. Favorite Son provided one of the most explicit sex scenes I've ever seen on television. It features Koslowski, clad in push-up bra and garter belt, perched on the bed as she tries to seduce the FBI agent investigating the case. She produces two ribbons from her bureau and ties them around her wrist, then raises her hand to the bedpost moaning, "Tie me up." Bad politics, it seems, has concomitant vices...