Word: explicitness
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Christgau. The name alone conjures up both savior and fascist. Yet he mercifully falls somewhere in between. Explicit about his point of view ("equal" with rock fans), open about his limitations (the fact that grading albums could land him 6-7 B-plusses a week), and unabashed in his literary style (the construction of new words like "semipopular"--and the use of simile--like Mott the Hoople's "Rock and Roll Queen" is to "Star fucker" as Bad Company is to the Rolling Stones), this man is everything a rock critic should be, without any of the pretensions to which...
There were also strong counterarguments. Even with the new weaponry, thinly populated Saudi Arabia would remain vulnerable to external attacks, and the AWACS would do nothing to prevent the most plausible threat to the monarchy: an internal uprising by radical Muslims. The sale would violate explicit assurances made to Congress by Jimmy Carter in 1978 that the U.S. would never extend the offensive capacity of the Saudi arsenal. Moreover, Reagan and his lieutenants could not demonstrate that fulfilling earlier promises to give Saudi Arabia state-of-the-art hardware would advance any overall U.S. plan for dealing with the Middle...
...deal, the Saudis can surely find equally compelling reasons to violate the terms of the sale that Reagan outlined in his letter to Baker. "...Saudi Arabia has agreed not to share access to AWACs equipment, technology...with any nation other than the U.S. without the prior explicit mutual consent of both governments," stated the letter, which was designed to reassure wavering senators. There is no way for Reagan to insure that the Saudis will remain cooperative. The F-15 sale three years ago was meant to guarantee Saudi Arabian gratitude. Apparently, it was not enough. Nor apparently, does the AWACs...
...most of film history the depiction of sexual acts was forbidden; and in the past decade it has become the province of the porno film, where sex is a dirty joke shared by performer and spectator. There are, of course, reasons beyond prudery for the resistance to explicit sex in mainstream movies. Film is still seen as a form of photography, and thus a medium of reporting: what you see is what there is, naked, without the novel's veils of metaphor or the ballet's screen of abstraction. Professional actors are neither trained nor eager to display...
Under Reagan, the shift is explicit...