Word: explicitness
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...pandas. Reagan met for serious talks with each of China's current leaders: de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping, Premier Zhao Ziyang, Party Leader Hu Yaobang and President Li Xiannian. The Chinese mentioned Taiwan again and again, but in measured tones; ultimatums were not delivered. Deng, while forswearing any explicit alliance with Washington, made it clear over the course of his 2½ hours with Reagan on Saturday that he shares the American President's fundamental distrust of the Soviets. Several trade agreements were firmed...
...readers at heart. He begins The Unbearable Lightness of Being, his latest and rather ridiculous-sounding novel, with a direct statement of authorial concerns. This beginning, although a formidable piece of structural clumsiness, represents a kindly attempt to save the reader's time; while one does not get an explicit statement of Kundera's theme, one receives an engaging and straightforward account of what the author thinks. No grubbing about in the text for the Kundera reader...
...Harvard officials should have noted such political information was not discussed by President Bok, but the FBI documents provided one possible explanation--an "arrangement" existed with the FBI President Bok's warning in his open letter about the danger of "political considerations" in the making of appointments and his explicit reference to the damage McCarthy had done seemed to justify the hope that perhaps a change in policy was possible. On April 24, 1980. I wrote to President Bok congratulating him on the stand he had taken. I expressed the hope that this position, together with the forcefulness of arguments...
...words that came into millions of American households last week told a story as tawdry as any soap opera, in language sometimes more explicit than any prime-time series: "I put my hands inside her pants and she unbuttoned her button . . . The two of us fell to the floor. She was laughing, I was laughing, I started pulling her pants. She was willing . . . Three or four-I don't know-people were around ... I heard from behind me for us to go to the pool table...
Opinion about CNN is divided among its major network rivals, which have run news stories about the trial but little of the explicit testimony. Says Executive Producer Steve Friedman of NBC's Today: "If you can broadcast hostages being taken, you can show these trials." ABC's Nightline, however, aired a critical discussion of CNN's live coverage. Said Correspondent Betsy Aaron: "These trials have become spectator sport...