Word: explicitness
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While calling the incident "regrettable," the Soviet news agency TASS blithely declared that "the entire responsibility for it lies fully on the American side." Top Pentagon officials bluntly warned the Soviet embassy's military attaches in Washington that their conduct was unacceptable and served notice that they want more explicit ground rules for the esoteric practice of cross-surveillance . Said one high official: "The system only works if both sides follow the rules...
...viciously and savagely, just like a rat." Notes Psychologist Morton Bard: "One could argue that Goetz was reliving the earlier incident when he pulled the trigger. The difference is that he acted out dreams of retaliation that most people resolve through fantasy." Goetz's subsequent explanation was more explicit: "I know in my heart I was a murderer . . . I just snapped...
...Composer Leo nard Bernstein, Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Choreographer Jerome Robbins was hailed as much for its quasi-operatic score as for its savvy lyrics and explosive, streetwise dances. Now comes a new Deutsche Grammophon recording, conducted by the composer, that makes the show's higher musical aspirations unabashedly explicit...
With the transition from elementary to high school in the second act, the play witnesses a surge of physical energy. The songs become more explicit!" sexual in tone, the conflict between spirit and flesh more prominent. All of this makes for some intersting satire, including a rendition of "Mad Bomber" by the guys' physical education class and "Saving Ourselves for Marriage" by their female counterparts. By far the most successful satirical seene, though, is the high school dance, in which the mins don black sunglasses and rock in doo-wop harmony...
...School of Arts and sciences have no guarantee that their sexual orientation will not become a factor when the application is considered. The argument that no student is asked, in the course of GSAS application process, to state his or her sexual orientation is misleading. Yes, there is not explicit question concerning sexuality. However, the question may be raised impicitly when the applicant lists undergraduate organizations of which he or she was a member: If the name of one of those organizations happens to contain the word 'gay" or "Lesbian" (as, for example, Harvard Radcliffe Gay and Lesbian Student Association...