Word: explicitness
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...same time, the flatness of the walls and screens-the boxes were shallow, and Nevelson rarely tried to make sculpture-in-the-round-gave them a great depth of pictorial suggestion. One seemed to be looking not at an explicit sculptural fact but at a dark reef of nuances: form laid beside and over form, shadow vanishing into deeper shadow, leading the eye inward to a profusion of veiled detail that demanded the most strenuous attention. In an environment she showed at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959, Dawn's Wedding Feast (reassembled in her 1980 show...
...Soviet Union itself. Says Marshall Goldman,'associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "If the Poles get away with it, the Russians know it will spread." Already, reports are multiplying that tiny free trade union movements may be cropping up in other Soviet satellites. The first explicit confirmation came in a speech, published only last week but delivered a month earlier by Jan Fojtik, a Czechoslovak party ideologist. "In connection with the events in Poland," he said, "people in many places in Czechoslovakia had begun to discuss the status of the unions and their tasks...
...Clean Up TV" campaign began in earnest early this year when the elders of Hurt's Church of Christ in Joelton, Tenn., became disgusted by the increasingly explicit sex on their television screens. Exhorted Hurt: "If you ever plan to take a stand for moral decency, now is the time, while hundreds of thousands of others are moving in the same direction...
...began by illustrating cheap 18th century novelettes known as kibyŏshi ("yellow-backs"), was prolific; he once illustrated 61 volumes of a Chinese classic. As Hillier observes, the man was an "encyclopedist of Japanese life and custom." That life and custom included portraiture, nature studies and some explicit erotic drawings that earn this book an X rating...
...than not cropping up on target exactly in the center of their screens. The secret of this wizardry lies in the lobes of Voyager's electronic brains. Hours before last week's near encounter, the computer memory banks of Voyager 1 were "sequenced" with a series of explicit instructions radioed from earth. So precisely did Voyager 1 carry out these orders that none of its multitude of observations arrived more than 46 seconds off schedule...