Word: explicitness
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...justices in the majority decided their position--cost benefit analysis. In effect, the justices subjected indivisible individual rights to a social calculus, whereby they measured whether the gain from convicting more criminals outweighed the relative loss of an individual's right to privacy. Justice Byron White was quite explicit on this point: "Because we find that the [exclusionary] rule can have no substantial deterrent effect in the sorts of situations under consideration in this case, we conclude that it cannot pay its way in those situations...
...Only Problem, Muriel Spark's latest novel, slides by with the elegant concision of a parable. Spark's economical narration, piercing judgment, and marvelous ear give her story the easy-to-watch quality of a cartoon, while the explicit statement of her concerns evokes a depth which is left for the reader to supply. Reading her novel is like looking at the reflections on the surface of a slow, but full and moving stream...
Perhaps such a man should never have had a daughter. Simenon hints that D. made a sexual advance toward Marie-Jo during the child's eleventh year; when the book was published in France, D. sued successfully to have two passages making this charge explicit suppressed. Whatever the facts of this tangled, pathetic affair, Simenon proudly displays Marie-Jo's incestuous feelings toward him. He danced with her to the strains of the Tennessee Waltz wherever he and his entourage happened to alight. He wrote her passionate letters before she was twelve: "Good night, good night, my tender...
...Reagan Administration wishes to beef up Argentina's military prowess by strengthening its arsenal, there should be no strenuous objections. But what the United States must first, and more importantly, do is to show explicit and active support for Alfonsin's attempts to democratize the country. Open commitment to human rights and economic growth in Argentina must replace the "quiet diplomacy" which has thus far served only to alienate and distance the Reagan Administration from Alfonsin if the United States considers a Latin American ally a priority...
...this exuberance, the novel might have benefited from more scenes with the only character sufficiently outsize to compete with the film maker: his driving, obsessive mother. The focus of the novel is Larry Lazar's awareness that his whole life has been a vain effort to win her explicit approval, and in her too brief scenes she dominates the story as effectively as she rules the family around her. Still, there is not a false note in the whole shrill song, and in its balanced skewering of Brooklyn and Beverly Hills, The Return of Mr. Hollywood may launch...