Word: explicitness
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...fate of Robert Bork, who himself fell victim to the Senate after a similarly brusing confirmation battle in which his conservative views were treated with the same contempt that once met Fortas' liberal ideas, lingers in the background of this biography. Murphy makes the connection explicit in his preface and his epilogue. But a crucial difference remains...
...Being chosen often reflects God's preference of people but can provoke hostility in the non-chosen, and that has explicit theological implications," said Levenson...
...Federal Communications Commission has gone after them with a regulation banning interstate telephone services that are obscene or indecent. Porn operators challenged the ruling, and last week federal courts in Los Angeles and New York City upheld the FCC's right to regulate obscenity but not the less explicit indecency. "I don't know if my client will still be able to operate now," said the attorney for one sex service...
...miracle of late Braque lies in this conjuncture of the explicit and the poetic. The green surface of The Billiard Table, 1945, folding in the middle, seems to be foundering in the aqueous gray and olive planes of the room like a sinking ship. Perhaps there is a ghost of a clue in the barely visible lettering on the wall, part of a cafe sign reminding patrons of the law against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts...
Spain has the Catalan sculptor Susana Solano, 42, whose constructions of sheet iron, mesh and rods are based on the image of baths and attain a weird intensity in balancing the plain, structurally explicit means of minimalism against an atmosphere of secrecy and menace: they could be prison cells or metaphorical labyrinths...